Felix Ziegel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Felix Ziegel

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Mar-1920

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 20-Nov-1988

Profession: astronomer, writer, physicist, mathematician, ufologist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Felix Yurievich Ziegel (Russian: ?????? ??????? ??????, March 20, 1920 - November 20, 1988) was a Soviet researcher, Doctor of Science and docent of Cosmology at the Moscow Aviation Institute, author of more than forty popular books on astronomy and space exploration, generally regarded as a founder of Russian ufology.
Ziegel, the co-founder of the first officially approved Soviet UFO research group, became an overnight sensation when, on November 10, 1967, speaking on the Soviet central television, he made an extensive report on the UFO sightings registered in the USSR and encouraged viewers to send him and his colleagues first-hand accounts of their observations, which resulted in barrage of letters and reports.
He died in November 1988, leaving 17 volumes of the unpublished research documents for his daughter to keep.