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World Chess President Claims He Was Abducted By Space Aliens -- And They Invented Chess
"They came in a flying saucer, picked me up, and I spent a whole day in outer space."
by Lee Speigel / www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel/
Writer, reporter, editor
Posted: 09/17/2015
When Kirsan Ilyumzhinov wakes up every day, perhaps he wonders if this will be the day when his extraterrestrial friends will return to bestow new, earthshaking secrets of the universe on him.
That's right, you read it correctly -- his ET friends. And this isn't even a new revelation about the 53-year-old former president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia.
Ilyumzhinov is currently president of the International Chess Foundation (FIDE), a position he's held since 1995, after readily defeating former world chess champion Garry Kasparov last year for the job.
His background and position on UFOs and ETs will undoubtedly bring Ilyumzhinov under fresh scrutiny -- he's reportedly considering running for president of FIFA, the international governing body of football. "The suggestion has been made but ... for myself, I haven't decided anything about this issue yet," Ilyumzhinov said, according to the Associated Press.
During his Kalmykia presidency, Ilyumzhinov -- pictured above at a 2006 meeting in Moscow's Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) -- claimed he was abducted by extraterrestrials.
Ilyumzhinov says that, on an evening in September 1997, ETs wearing yellow spacesuits spirited him out of his Moscow home and took him to their spaceship. Here's part of an interview he gave in 2007 for an Al Jazeera news report, "Meet the President -- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov":
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World Chess President Claims He Was Abducted By Space Aliens -- And They Invented Chess
"They came in a flying saucer, picked me up, and I spent a whole day in outer space."
by Lee Speigel / www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel/
Writer, reporter, editor
Posted: 09/17/2015
When Kirsan Ilyumzhinov wakes up every day, perhaps he wonders if this will be the day when his extraterrestrial friends will return to bestow new, earthshaking secrets of the universe on him.
That's right, you read it correctly -- his ET friends. And this isn't even a new revelation about the 53-year-old former president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia.
Ilyumzhinov is currently president of the International Chess Foundation (FIDE), a position he's held since 1995, after readily defeating former world chess champion Garry Kasparov last year for the job.
His background and position on UFOs and ETs will undoubtedly bring Ilyumzhinov under fresh scrutiny -- he's reportedly considering running for president of FIFA, the international governing body of football. "The suggestion has been made but ... for myself, I haven't decided anything about this issue yet," Ilyumzhinov said, according to the Associated Press.
During his Kalmykia presidency, Ilyumzhinov -- pictured above at a 2006 meeting in Moscow's Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) -- claimed he was abducted by extraterrestrials.
Ilyumzhinov says that, on an evening in September 1997, ETs wearing yellow spacesuits spirited him out of his Moscow home and took him to their spaceship. Here's part of an interview he gave in 2007 for an Al Jazeera news report, "Meet the President -- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov":
CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aliens-invented-the-game-of-chess-says-world-chess-president-kirsan-ilyumzhinov_55f31627e4b063ecbfa42cce?utm_hp_ref=weird-news