RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev has reportedly been urged to investigate a prominent politician who claims he was abducted by aliens.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the country's southern region of Kalymkia, told a prime-time television show he was taken on a spaceship sent to Earth and met extra-terrestrials wearing yellow spacesuits, The Sun reported.

Now a Russian politician fears Mr Ilyumzhinov may have divulged state secrets and wants him investigated.

Mr Ilyumzhinov told television host Vladimir Pozner on Channel One on April 26 that he had spent several hours in the company of aliens.

He said they visited his apartment in downtown Moscow on September 18, 1997.

The leader said he was falling asleep when he heard someone calling him from the balcony.

Mr Ilyumzhinov went outside and said he saw the spaceship which was a "half-transparent half tube".

He went inside and met human-like creatures in yellow spacesuits.

Mr Ilyumzhinov said he could not communicate with the aliens.

He said: "I am often asked which language I used to talk to them. Perhaps, it was on a level of the exchange of ideas."

He said the aliens then gave him a tour of their spaceship.

Mr Ilyumzhinov said the alien spaceship had come to Earth to take samples - and claims to have several witnesses.

Russian parliamentarian Andre Lebedev has called for an inquiry into the claims and written a letter to Mr Medvedev raising a list of his concerns.

In his letter he says that - assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke - it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin.

Read more at The Sun.