American author, born in Los Angeles in 1943 and raised in Downey, California, who spent over 14 years working in quality assurance and metallurgical analysis in the aerospace industry. Co-authored 'UFO Crash at Aztec' (1987) with Wendelle Stevens, reviving and defending Frank Scully's disputed claim that the U.S. military recovered a craft near Aztec, New Mexico in 1948.
William 'Bill' Steinman was born in Los Angeles on July 11, 1943, and raised in Downey, California, home to Rockwell's Space Division. He attended but did not graduate from Cerritos State College, majoring in philosophy with a minor in psychology, and went on to spend more than 14 years working in quality assurance and metallurgical design in the aerospace industry. Drawing on that technical background, he co-authored 'UFO Crash at Aztec: A Well Kept Secret' (1987) with Wendelle Stevens, reviving Frank Scully's 1950 claim of a military crash retrieval near Aztec, New Mexico in March 1948 and arguing it represented a suppressed recovery rather than the hoax most UFO researchers had concluded it to be. The claim remains highly disputed within ufology.