Former Russian international chess boss details his ‘alien encounter’

Aliens are not ready to reveal themselves to earthlings, given humanity’s sub-par “civilizational level,” Kirsan Ilyumzhinov claims Former head of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who also served as president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, has claimed he was abducted by aliens back in the 1990s. Ilyumzhinov detailed the “encounter” in an interview with the Sports.ru website, published on Tuesday. “[It happened in] September 1997, in Moscow. They called me to the balcony. I went out and soon found myself on their ship. Everything was simple,” he claimed.