Glenn Steckling, the Director and copyright holder of the sixty-year-old George Adamski
Foundation, one of the oldest enduring UFO organizations, discusses his family’s extensive
history within the UFO field and their association with George Adamski. This includes the
Steckling family’s pioneering Lunar anomaly research from the 1970s & 80s and his concerns
regarding the developing agendas of misinformation focused on the revisionism of UFO history
and perceptions. Glenn’s parents, the late Fred Steckling and his wife Ingrid were personal
friends and selected coworkers of George Adamski – considered by many as The Pioneer in
the early UFO Contactee field.
Fred Steckling’s first book, “Why Are They Here: Spaceships from Other Worlds,”
published by Vantage Press in 1968, is considered a classic in this field. His second 1981 book,
“We Discovered Alien Bases on the Moon” - composes research many have attempted to
copy since but never have successfully matched – and it continues as one of the foremost
publications into the lunar anomaly investigation. (Revised & expanded into “We Discovered
Alien Bases on the Moon 2” by Glenn in 1997; now well into its eleventh publication). In 2015
Adamski’s third book, “Flying Saucers Farewell” from 1961, was re-released and expanded
by the Foundation into its new paperback title “Behind the Flying Saucer Mystery 2”, which
includes 55 new pages of data, research and references, including an entirely new photographic
section added.
Because of the Steckling Family’s association with Adamski, and the resulting UFO program
and materials inherited from him, the late Fred Steckling was active in Ufology from the early
1960s throughout the remainder of his life until his passing in1991. Both proactive personalities
in this field, Fred and Ingrid Steckling were invited by Dr. Lowman to address a panel of 22
scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Center in 1967. Afterward also to brief Colonel Freeman
and his staff at the Pentagon. His commitment to this subject included numerous appearances
such as Life with Linkletter, Voice of America, National T.V and radio in Japan, Australia, and
Germany, a 1984 address before a Select Committee of Britain's House of Lords sponsored by
Lord Clancarty, and numerous University and worldwide media events. Due to Mr. Steckling’s
1978 correspondence and photos submitted to Prime Minister Sir. Eric Gairy of Grenada, a
vocal supporter of UFOs in the United Nations, some of the first to issue UFO stamps were released.