Case file · Abduction
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's abduction claim
In 2010 the president of Kalmykia and of the World Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, said on Russian television that in September 1997 aliens in yellow spacesuits took him from his Moscow flat aboard their spacecraft.
1997 CE · 55.76, 37.59 · status: claim
The account
He said his driver and aides noticed his absence. A member of the Russian parliament asked President Medvedev to investigate whether state secrets had been passed to aliens. Ilyumzhinov, a Buddhist who built Chess City in Elista, repeated the story many times.
The sceptical view
A single claimant with no supporting evidence.