Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Moscow contact claim (17 September 1997)
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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Moscow, 2010
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, president of Kalmykia and of FIDE, who said in 2010 that he had been taken aboard a craft from his Moscow flat in 1997. Portrait of the claimant · context.
A.Savin · 2010 ↗CC BY-SA 3.0Licence terms ↗American Alchemy · 0:05:04
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedKirsan Ilyumzhinov, then president of Kalmykia and of FIDE, has said that on 17 September 1997 he was taken from his Moscow apartment aboard a craft by beings in yellow suits and shown their ship before being returned. He repeated the account on Russian television in 2010. The corpus recounts the story.
The event
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | 55.7558, 37.6173 approximate · Russia |
| Official response | A Russian State Duma deputy asked President Medvedev in 2010 to investigate whether Ilyumzhinov had disclosed state secrets to the visitors; no inquiry followed. |
Reported by
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov government President of Kalmykia; FIDE president
Who spoke about it later
- Jesse Michels 0:05:04 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic ▶ 2025
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“I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic 14 December 2025
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Sources on this record
- 0:05:04 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic ▶
you are to my knowledge the only leader of a prominent nation who was abducted by aliens and taken up on a spacecraft while you were a sitting president in 1997. And so it's an absolute honor uh uh
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
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