24: Putin's Secret UFO Documents Revealed | Conspiracy Cabal Podcast

Russia has been tracking unidentified aerial phenomena since before the term existed. The Soviet military ran a classified investigation called Program SETKA from 1978 to 1990 — twelve years, thousands of filed reports, senior military personnel as witnesses — and when the USSR collapsed and the files were briefly, partially opened, what came out was strange enough that the Russian government quietly closed them again. That was 1993. Nobody in the western press followed up. And Putin, who knows where every other body is buried, has never once been asked about it on the record.

So what does it mean when the country with the second-largest nuclear arsenal and a seventy-year history of UAP investigation has said almost nothing — while the Americans have said just enough to make you stop asking?

This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go through what the evidence actually shows, what's been conveniently overlooked, and what the gap between those two things tells us.

Program SETKA: what the Soviet military was actually investigating, the rank of the officers filing reports, and what the partially declassified files described before the archive door closed again in 1993

The Petrozavodsk incident: the 1977 event over a major Russian city witnessed by hundreds of people including police and harbour workers, reported on the front page of Tass, and never officially explained by any government that was asked

Putin and the disclosure question: every on-record statement he has made about UAPs, what a former Russian defence minister said publicly in 2012 that would have ended any western official's career, and why neither statement got a follow-up

The military overlap: the specific coordinates where Russian UAP sightings cluster, what else is at those coordinates, and whether the phenomenon respects the same boundaries that nuclear infrastructure does on both sides of the iron curtain

The coordination problem: what it would mean if Russia and the United States have been aware of the same phenomenon for seventy years and chosen independently to say nothing, and which explanation for that silence is actually more unsettling

Some of this is documented. Some is genuinely unknown. And almost none of it is as settled as the people who control the archives want you to believe.

Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out.

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