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Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov has been the President of the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federation from 1993 until present day. He’s a multi-millionaire of his own making, a super-duper chess wiz, and possibly has more business savvy than all of Donald Trump‘s apprentices smooshed together into one. Also, once he was thought linked to a? horrific, politically motivated stabbing murder (as insinuated by Wikipedia), but that’s neither here nor there.
The news of the day is this – he claimed in a TV interview that one night in 1997 a semi-transparent tube showed up on his balcony. It was the device aliens used to get him on their ship – and he claims to have proof of it!
Politicians claiming UFO experience/knowledge seems to be a trend lately. Remember retiring State Representative to New Hampshire Henry W. McElroy, Jr? He went on abut how Eisenhower knew all about the ETs being here. Or that whole former US Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich – remember that one? He was hanging out with the Patridge Family mom when he suddenly saw a freaky UFO floating outside the balcony.
Well add another one to the list. Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov claims he had a balcony encounter too. In an (unprofessionally-translated) excerpt from a TV interview:
“Okay, well, it was a Saturday, I wanted to drive to Kalm?chien and was in my apartment in the Leontief quarter.” [The interviewer asks] “Here in Moskau?” Response: “Exactly. In the evening, I was reading, watched TV and then went to bed. I probably fell asleep and felt that the balcony door being opened and someone called me. I saw a half transparent tube, in which he came. I went through this tube and saw people in yellow spacesuits. I was asked often in which language we speak. Maybe telepathically, because not enough oxygen was there(?) They made me understand: “Just a small touch and everything will be fine.” And then they showed me around the spacecraft and they said, “We need samples from every planet.” Then I asked, “Why don't you go on TV and say that you are here? Talk to us!” Then they said, that we were not ready for that.”
That sounds pretty far fetched, right? If you don’t think it sounds far fetched you are a weirdo.? Still – Ilyumzhinov claims proof of his temporary vanishing. In his own words from the same interview:
“I wouldn't have believe this happened myself if I didn’t have 3 witnesses. My driver, the Minister and my assistant. They came in the morning and couldn’t find me. They found the balcony door open in the floor above. They saw that(?) and called (my)friends, but they knew nothing. Then they sat in the kitchen and discussed from where they should call, because the telephone and everything else was locked up in the apartment and they didn’t have there own key. Then they saw me coming into the kitchen from the bedroom. They looked at me and I said, “Make me an Omelet, we need to go to the Airport.” They asked, “Where were you?” And I said very normally, “I was in a flying saucer” They looked annoyed and asked, “No, seriously…” So I sat down and began to think about it logically. This experience/time – was about an hour long-they were in my apartment and I wasn’t there. One of them was in the hallway and it was not possible that I walked past him. I came out of the bedroom where the balcony door was open. They all were pretty shocked by all of this for a few months. It is so clear(to them) that I wasn’t there (in the apartment) and then suddenly was there.”
If we found ourselves in the exact same situation, we’d probably have asked for a bagel with cream cheese instead of an omelet. That’s the only difference. It’s kind of proof that we’d make excellent Russian politicians.
If you’d like to see our source material for this – it’s straight from Youtube. It’s spoken in Russian and the subtitles are German. Very inconvenient, we know. Somebody posted an English translation below it. You’ve got to click on something to make the translation appear, but you know, have at it.
gilbert wham says