俄政客自稱遇見外星人 曾參觀過UFO

A Russian MP has asked an eccentric regional leader to explain his behaviour after claiming on state television that he was visited at home by aliens in a UFO, media reported Thursday.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, head of the Buddhist Kalmykia region of southern Russia and president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), announced without apparent irony on a high-profile chat show he had met the aliens in 1997.

In an equally bizarre twist, Andrei Lebedev, an MP for the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, has now written to President Dmitry Medvedev raising fears that secret information could have been disclosed in the close encounter.

"I ask you to say if the head of Kalmykia has made an official report to the Russian presidency about his contacts with representatives of an alien civilisation," he said, quoted by tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda and other media.

"Is there an established procedure of informing about such contacts by high ranking people who have access to secret information like Ilyumzhinov?

"And did he in the course of his seemingly innocent conversation disclose secret information?"

Ilyumzhinov had said in his comments, broadcast in late April, that the aliens appeared in a transparent tube on the balcony of his apartment in Moscow.

"I was reading my book, watching television and had almost fallen asleep. Then I felt that someone was calling.

"I would not have believed it, if I had not had three witnesses -- my driver, my minister and my aide," he said.

This is not the first time the chess-mad leader has spoken of extraterrestrial encounters. He had earlier claimed to have been shown round a UFO in 2001.

據媒體本週四報道，俄羅斯一名地區領導人日前在接受當地一個電視臺的採訪時語出驚人，宣稱自己曾在家中遇見搭乘不明飛行物的外星人。一名杜馬議員要求他對他的這一行爲做出解釋。

俄羅斯南部信奉佛教的卡爾梅克共和國領袖、國際象棋協會主席基爾桑·伊柳姆日諾夫日前在一檔高端人物談話節目中嚴肅宣稱，他曾在1997年見過外星人。

同樣不可思議的是，俄羅斯民族主義政黨自由民主黨成員、國家杜馬議員安德烈•萊比德夫竟致信總統德米特里•梅德韋傑夫，稱外星人可能在與伊柳姆日諾夫“親密接觸”時竊取了俄羅斯國家機密。

俄羅斯小報《共青團真理報》和其它媒體援引萊比德夫的話說：“我想知道這位卡爾梅克共和國領導人是否已向俄羅斯總統正式彙報了與外星人接觸一事。”

“像伊柳姆日諾夫這樣有機會接觸到國家機密的高級官員，是否有一個既定的程序來彙報此類事件？”

“在他與外星人貌似很普通的交談中是否泄露了國家機密？”

伊柳姆日諾夫在上月末的一檔電視節目中稱，他曾看到外星人搭乘一艘透明的太空船降落在他位於莫斯科公寓的陽臺上。

“當時我正一邊看書一邊看電視，幾乎快要睡着，突然覺得有人在叫我。”

他說：“要不是有司機、政府部長和助理三個目擊證人，我自己都不敢相信。”

這位國際象棋界領導人已經不是第一次宣稱自己遇見外星人。他曾稱自己在2001年參觀過一個不明飛行物。

Vocabulary:

eccentric: 古怪的

extraterrestrial：outside, or originating outside, the limits of the earth（地球外的，宇宙的）