Felix Ziegel

A Soviet astronomer and early ufologist. In 1947, while at the Moscow Planetarium, Felix Ziegel began promoting the theory that an alien ship exploded over Tunguska in 1908. He later argued the object blew up in the air after a curving manoeuvre of some 600 km. May 1967. He became deputy of the first official Soviet UFO study group under Major General Stolyarov. That November the two men went on central television to appeal for witnesses, and Ziegel summed up about 200 reports of a glowing orange crescent. A decade later he challenged the rocket explanation for the Petrozavodsk Phenomenon.

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The Tunguska Explosion and the Exploding Spaceship Hypothesis

June 30, 1908 · Near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia

UAP · Other · 57 sources

38Partially documented

Moscow Planetarium lecturer and early Soviet ufologist who promoted the spaceship theory

The Great Soviet Crescent sightings, 1967

1967 · South-western USSR, from Ukraine to the Caucasus (Donbas, lower Don, Kislovodsk, lower Volga)

UAP · Other · 28 sources

41Partially documented

Astronomer at the Moscow Aviation Institute; deputy of the Soviet UFO study group who presented the sightings on Soviet central television

Petrozavodsk Phenomenon (the Petrozavodsk Jellyfish)

September 20, 1977 · Petrozavodsk, Karelian ASSR, on the western shore of Lake Onega

UAP · Other · 57 sources · 1 photos

0Thinly documented