A Russian MP has called for an investigation into a government official's claims that he had contact with extraterrestrials, Press TV reported.
On April 26, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern Russian region of Kalmykia, told a prime time television show that he was taken to a spaceship sent to Earth by extraterrestrials.
Ilyumzhinov told television host Vladimir Pozner on Russia's Channel One that he had spent several hours in the company of aliens.
He said they visited his apartment in downtown Moscow on September 18, 1997.
"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, Ilyumzhinov told the television host.
Ilyumzhinov said the aliens gave him a tour of their spaceship and said they had come to Earth to take samples.
On Wednesday, Russian parliamentarian Andrei Lebedev called for an inquiry into the claims and wrote a letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev raising a list of his concerns.
In his letter he said that - assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke - it was a historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin.
He also asked if there are official guidelines for what government officials should do if contacted by aliens, especially if those officials have access to state secrets.
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