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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

documented government status · verified public figure

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov · 0:32:42

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American Alchemy · 0:00:00

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American Alchemy · 2:56:32

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Ilyumzhinov has said since 1997 that beings in yellow suits took him from his Moscow apartment onto a craft and returned him. A Russian parliamentarian asked the Kremlin whether he had disclosed state secrets. The corpus interviews him.

Who

RoleFormer president of Kalmykia and of FIDE; says he was taken aboard a craft in 1997
Sidegovernment
Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

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Claims made

  • Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was president of Kalmykia and president of FIDE in September 1997, and was also a Russian Federation senator — the public offices that make his the highest-status abduction account on record.

    FACT documented 2025

    • 0:32:42 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      I entered the Guinness Book of Records twice. As the youngest president in the world and as the only person who held two official positions at the same time
  • Ilyumzhinov testified that in late September 1997, in his Moscow apartment, he was called to a glowing translucent tube at his window, traveled it to a vast craft with tall beings in yellow garments, conversed telepathically — including the 'do you converse with ants?' exchange — watched cylinders loaded from a fiery planet, and was returned with a promise of same-time return.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 0:07:18 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      there was something like a translucent pipe glowing made of some
  • Ilyumzhinov stated that after he disclosed the event, Garry Kasparov publicly demanded his removal as FIDE president and Kalmyk opposition figures called for his re-election or committal.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:30:32 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      The 13th World Chess Champion, Gary Kasparov, immediately began to state,
  • Ilyumzhinov stated that Henry Kissinger, at his sauna with Gorbachev present, asked 'how are they?' and, prompted by Gorbachev ('Come on, Henry, tell him'), only smiled — and that he concluded Kissinger was deeply read into the subject.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:45:06 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      And Gorbachev sitting next to him said, "Come on, Henry, tell him." And if that's not all, Keran reveals that the president of a
  • Ilyumzhinov was taken aboard a spacecraft by non-human beings in September 1997 — the world-claim of his case.

    SPECULATION thin 2025

    • 0:09:35 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      Maybe an hour will pass here, and on earth a hundred or a
  • Ilyumzhinov relayed Gorbachev's account of Andropov's account of a Brezhnev-Nixon meeting at which the US president showed Brezhnev a small folder, after which 'all research and all flights to the moon suddenly stopped' on both sides.

    SPECULATION unsupported 2025

    • 0:47:12 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      the president of the United States had a small
  • Ilyumzhinov stated that the president of a G7 nation, a close friend, confided his own alien visitation — during a fishing trip with his wife — but refused to go public with elections six months out.

    SPECULATION unsupported 2025

    • 0:26:09 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
      One of the presidents of a country which is part of the group

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Moscow contact claim (17 September 1997). Open the full map filtered to this record.

Sources on this record

  • 0:32:42 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
    I entered the Guinness Book of Records twice. As the youngest president in the world and as the only person who held two official positions at the same time
  • 0:07:18 “I Was Taken By Aliens In 1997!” -President of Russian Republic · Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
    there was something like a translucent pipe glowing made of some

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