“I believe I talked to them and saw them. I perhaps wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t for 3 witnesses -- my driver, my minister and my assistant,” who were apparently in the apartment at the time, he reportedly said. According to a report on Russian news website GZT.ru, State Duma deputy Andrei Lebedev doesn’t believe that the governor was simply shown around the alien spaceship and released. Lebedev wants to find out what else happened to the president -- and he wants Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to interrogate the abductee. Russian officials fear Ilyumzhinov may have given the aliens “secret information,” according to the Echo of Moscow radio station." Fox News ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I particularly like the part in which "Russian officials" fear that he may have told the aliens state secrets. pl
"Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the governor of Kalmykia, told a popular Russian television host that the aliens came for him in his apartment on September 18, 1997. According to a report on ABC News, Ilyumzhinov said that the aliens didn’t make themselves known to the rest of the world because they weren’t ready, adding that he communicated with them telepathically because there wasn’t enough oxygen.
Freaky. Certainly improbable. But these days I don't dismiss anything right out of hand.
Posted by: Lysander | 06 May 2010 at 01:06 PM
He'a also a big supporter of organized chess. Oh, well, organized chess--which I love--is loaded with the misanthropes.
Posted by: Matthew | 06 May 2010 at 01:53 PM
I don't claim to be an expert on Russians, but apparently large numbers of them happily swallow huge quantities of hogwash that even an American tabloid would reject. UFOs are a prominent example of this.
Posted by: Cato the Censor | 06 May 2010 at 02:01 PM
Yuri Gagarin got there first.
Posted by: Cloned Poster | 06 May 2010 at 02:04 PM
Colonel,
We can laugh all we want, however there are many in Russia that do believe in extra-terrestrials, and the threat to state security they may pose.
Posted by: J | 06 May 2010 at 02:21 PM
i-have-been-abducted-by-aliens-says-japans-first-lady in the Independent
Now of course the source given above is owned by a former KGB b/ it was all over other world news outlets. For those that have read the God Helmet article i referenced in the shroud of Torino thread, these kind of feelings are consistent w/ temporal lobe excitements set off by tectonic plate shifts & other magnetic disturbances in those suitably "labile" or sensitive.
Posted by: WILL | 06 May 2010 at 03:05 PM
Many years ago Winston Cigarettes published a ad that I still have up on my bulletin board. It said:
"If aliens are smart enough to travel through space, why do they keep abducting the dumbest people on earth"
I have been waiting many years to quote it. This is my chance.
Posted by: R Whitman | 06 May 2010 at 03:37 PM
Pat:
Perhaps it was the Shape Shifting Reptilian Aliens from the Drako Constellation that grabbed the prez. I got it all on down low from David Icke, and since he's on the Alex Jones show all the time, it must be true...
Pete Deer
Posted by: SubKommander Dred | 06 May 2010 at 04:02 PM
When voting, I always check the endorsements or for ballot measures, the outfit that paid for the argument.
I see your link to Faux 'News'.
Okay, here is another interesting story:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/153063
Here is a teaser - "The non-human entity was quickly identified,
carefully watched, photographed and eventually captured near a
shopping mall (southeast of Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland) after it
walked up an embankment. It was quickly determined that this male
alien had no special powers nor abilities."
"The male non-human voluntarily complied with the U.S. intelligence
AFOSI special agents and went quietly and without incident. The male
non-human was then remanded to custody and placed in captivity at Ft.
Belvoir Army Post, Virginia."
Posted by: greg0 | 06 May 2010 at 04:14 PM
the native religion of the indigenous Kalmyks (53% of the population) is Tibetan Buddhism. According to my hypothesis, the prez would have well developed meditative skills and sensitive temporal lobe antennae.
Kalmykia at Wikipedia
God_helmet at Wikipedia
Professor Persen's thesis is that tectonic plate shifts and other natural phenomena produce magnetic fields analoguous to his machine. He maintains that these fields are capable of inducing paranormal states via influence on the temporal lobes of sensitive or "labile" people.
Posted by: WILL | 06 May 2010 at 06:12 PM
if he wasn't on drugs, the story must be true..Probably some US intelligence officials in disguise who interrogated him
Posted by: EPHUIS | 06 May 2010 at 06:33 PM
Will et al
I, personally, am more interested in Sasquatch. pl
Posted by: Patrick Lang | 06 May 2010 at 07:18 PM
in that case Col., Guess I'll have to get a bottle of Absinthe and some sugar cubes...
Posted by: WILL | 06 May 2010 at 09:58 PM
Sasquatch- I remember being really disappointed at about age 13, which was a long time ago, when investigators kept debunking stories of my favorite creature.
I mean, EVERYONE knew Bigfoot hung out in the woods of the North West! Those big dark woods that began right down the road from our house. Where us kids would dare each other to go one more step into the thick brush.
I just found out a couple weeks ago that an old friend of mine is an adviser to a Texas group now looking for him in the Big Thicket country. Well, he always saw things in his tea leaves most of the rest us never did.
I didn't know Sasquatch had moved down to East Texas, maybe he just got tired of hanging around the coffee shops in Seattle.
Posted by: John Minnerath | 07 May 2010 at 10:55 AM
Here is an unusual family tradition carried on for almost a hundred years by a family in N.H.. The Case of the Mummified Infant Corpse:
"The mummified body had been kept for years by Charles Peavey. He had said the family had the mummy, possibly the stillborn son of a great-great-uncle, for 80 to 90 years and considered it a family heirloom.
Relatives had treated the mummified infant as a family member, giving it cards during holidays and a dried fish as a pet."
Every child needs a pet.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100505/ap_on_re_us/us_mummy_baby
Posted by: optimax | 07 May 2010 at 04:58 PM