The President of the Republic of Kalmykia, apparently a real country, claims that he was once abducted by aliens who abducted him during a 1997 trip to Moscow. He has told members of the international press that once aboard the mother ship he was flown to "some kind of star," after which the aliens, "put a spacesuit on me, told me many things, and showed me around."

According to The Guardian "They took me from my apartment and we went aboard their ship," he says, sitting in his office in Kalmykia's capital, Elista. "We flew to some kind of star. They put a spacesuit on me, told me many things and showed me around. They wanted to demonstrate that UFOs do exist."