Born in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Gershtein graduated at Russian State Pedagogical University. He has written a large number of articles about UFOs in local and national media since 1988, has worked for some years as a journalist and UFO expert for the "Anomaliya" magazine, has been editor-in-chief of the monthly "UFO Navigator" e-zine and executive editor of popular magazine "Nexus". In 2002 he was elected as a Chairman of Russian Geographical Society’s UFO Commission and has since been an active member of EuroUFO.net.