Kalmykia

What the Show Claims

• ›President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia announced in 2007 that he had been taken aboard an extraterrestrial ship, providing modern evidence of alien abduction phenomena.

What Archaeology Says

Kalmykia is a federal subject (republic) of Russia. Ilyumzhinov's claims about alien abduction are personal anecdotal accounts not supported by scientific evidence.