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Even as physicist Stephen Hawking is warning

that it might be safest for humans to stay away from off-planet life, at least one Russian politician is concerned about an alleged extraterrestrial visit that happened 13 years ago.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is being asked to investigate whether the leader of the country’s Kalmykia region

could have spilled state secrets when he was visited by space aliens in 1997,

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In a television interview last month, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

announced with apparent seriousness that aliens showed up at his home and gave him a tour of their spaceship.

This revelation prompted MP and Duma

Security Committee member Andrei Lebedev to write to Medvedev expressing fears — again, with apparent seriousness — that secret information could have been disclosed in the close encounter.

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[Lebedev] sent a letter to Medvedev on April 29, urging the president to ask Ilyumzhinov how his meeting with aliens had influenced his rule of Kalmykia and whether the aliens had attempted to learn anything from him. Lebedev also asked Medvedev whether Ilyumzhinov had ever informed the Kremlin of his contacts with aliens and whether a procedure was in place for senior officials who know state secrets — like Ilyumzhinov — to report such contacts to the Kremlin.

In the interview, Ilyumzhinov said he was falling asleep when he heard someone calling him from the balcony. He went out and saw a “semi-transparent half tube” that he entered to meet human-like creatures in yellow spacesuits, the Times

reports.

Ilyumzhinov could not say how he was able to speak to the space people “Perhaps, it was on a level of the exchange of the ideas,” he solemnly said in the interview, the Times

reports .

Ilyumzhinov also said the aliens had not gone on television themselves because they were not ready for that yet.

Let’s hope these aliens are never ready because we know how these sort of things go: