What do money, business, chess, Kalmykia, FIFA and Aliens have in common?

It's the millionaire businessman Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the World Chess Federation President, former President of the Russian country Kalamykia, and Alien abductee, who was proposed to be the next FIFA leader in 2016.

Wait. Alien abductee? Yes. During several televised interviews, the famous and powerful politician boldly made public that he was abducted by Aliens who communicated telepathically with him.

“I spent a whole day in outer space”, the Huffingtonpost.com quotes him.

It happened exactly 18 years ago, on September 18, 1997. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was at his apartment in Moscow when Aliens appeared, abducted him and took him on their flying saucer. Three other persons witnessed the event: his driver, his personal assistant and a minister.

“Aliens took me from my apartment and we went aboard their ship. We flew to a distant planet,” he stated in an interview posted on Youtube.

He was lucky that the Aliens who abducted him were kind and understanding, and returned him safely at home, Ilyumzhinov recalls:

“I asked them to take me back to Earth as quickly as possible, because in two days I had to conduct Youth Government Week.”

This experience had an impact on him: “I understand that we are not alone in this whole world. We are not unique.”

In another interview for the Independent, Ilyumzhionov stated that chess is a “cosmic game”. He thinks that chess was brought to humans by extraterrestrials and that it bears an encrypted code linked to the human DNA.

FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was proposed to run for the FIFA Presidency. Ilziumzhinov is a successful sports manager, who brought financial stability to the World Chess Federation, according to the FIDE website.

Will FIFA have an Alien friend as a new leader on February 26, 2016?