He's a multimillionaire businessman, the leader of the only Buddhist region in Europe, and head of the World Chess Federation.
But Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has another claim to fame - he says was abducted by aliens who landed a spaceship on his balcony in 1997.
Even though 13 years have gone by - including four since The Guardian reported his close encounter of the third kind - he's back in the Earth news big time.
This story is not going to go away, like it would here in the good old freedom, liberty, and truth loving USA. To read the rest of the article, click here.