Robert A.M. Stephens Exposed as a Fraud
I have recently done a fairly thorough investigation into the claims made by Robert A.M. Stephens. Borderland Sciences' association with Mr. Stephens began after he emailed me about information I had posted to my website concerning the December 7th Landing. Some of the information Mr. Stephens was presenting seemed very interesting (although unverifiable) and I asked him if he would like us to put up a webpage for him.
After the December 30th, 1998 guest appearance by Mr. Stephens on the Art Bell show, many (including myself) started to question Mr. Stephens credibility.
The following is a report of my investigation on Mr. Robert A.M. Stephens.
Initially, I checked out Robert A.M. Stephens (after his first email to me) by doing a typical search on the internet for his name. I came up with the following references:
http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/library.html/arts/samples.html
http://digester.et.tudelft.nl/IMp66-15.html
http://digester.et.tudelft.nl/IM66-15.html
http://www.d21.k12.il.us/~lists/fb1744.html
I have to admit that my investigation was not very thorough. Mr. Stephens gave me a phone number to a "Larry Mauk", his contact at KSC — which turned out to be a fax machine. I sent a fax asking for confirmation of Mr. Stephens, but received no reply.
After the Art Bell
show appearance, I began to do a more thorough investigation into
his background. I emailed some of the contacts he said he had at
NASA. One of them, declared a "buddy" by Mr. Stephens,
wrote back saying, "I have never met or talked to Robert
Stephens to my knowledge, and I have no idea if he is a Space
Shuttle contractor as stated in his e-mail."
He then went on to say, "I was simply responding to his
e-mail in the spirit of public mail to NASA, and am a bit
chagrined that he has termed me his "buddy" and that he
posted my e-mail to him to the Web without asking me if he could
do so."
This NASA spokesperson asked that I do not forward or post his
mail without permission — I am awaiting his permission.
I then went after the SEAL Team-3 claim. There are many sites on the internet hosted by former Navy SEALs which enjoy exposing those who make such false claims. Here is a list:
Fake SEALs
and Phoney Frogs
Phonies
and Scumbags
Fake
SEALs
Wannabe
Veterans
Mike's US
Navy SEAL Homepage
There may be more. I then emailed ALL of them asking for confirmation whether Robert A.M. Stephens had or had not been a Navy SEAL. Here are a couple responses so far:
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From: "VeriSEAL" <agile@ix.netcom.com>
Organization: Phony SEAL Hall of Shame
To: Michael Theroux <director@borderlands.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 20:49:52 +0000
Subject: Re: More info from ROBERT STEPHENS
Reply-to: agile@ix.netcom.com
Priority: urgent
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b)
Michael,
All of your e-mail info on Stephens has been forwarded to about a
dozen
*REAL* former SEALs. What you have in the form of Stephens is a
100% bonafide FRAUD.
Look for incoming messages from assorted retired Viet-era SEALs
who
will likely be more than interested in Stephens. By the way, the
only two
Teams in existence during WW-Vietnam were 1 and 2. The owner of
the Hall of Shame at the Teams Homepage ( http://The-South.Com/TheTeams
)
is retired Senior Chief Kent Dillingham, one of the
plankowners of ST-3 in 1983. That means he was one of the
original
founding SEALs for that Team.
Ciao,
Dana
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I then Emailed Robert Stephens with this (his reply follows):
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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 08:44:57 +0000
From: "Robert A. M. Stephens"
<sti3818@montana.com>
Reply-To: sti3818@montana.com
Organization: Stillwater Mills
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
To: Michael Theroux <director@borderlands.com>,
Paul Dore <pdore@web-computing.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Hi Robert-Hi Michael
Michael Theroux wrote:
> Hi, excuse me for doing my homework, but this is what I have
come up with:
>
> West Coast Teams
> SEAL Team 1 - South East Asia
> SEAL Team 3 - Middle East
>
> SEAL Team 5 - South Korea
>
> East Coast Teams
> SEAL Team 2 - Northern Europe
> SEAL Team 4 - South America
> SEAL Team 8 - Africa
>
> SEAL Team 6 - Anywhere
>
> According to my sources, Team 3 wasn't formed until after
the Nam thing.
> So, there seems to be a conundrum here...
>
> Is this correct?
>
> just checkin' you out.
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No problem, if they care. No conundrum.
Teams by formation save for 6 and 8, are pretty much open for
deployment by
locale. Team 3 formation was in 1970 or thereabouts. In the
deploy for
Courier Services and other interdiction duty in non Viet Nam
battle zone
areas such as Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and northern Burma and up
on the
Chinese border proper, several small elements from Teams 2, 3 and
4 were
used or detached. The Courier Services is where I entered into
service under
'last surviving son status' (see the selective service link and
the Military
archive link). My draft number in 1970 was 311 out of 366. The
women and
children would have gone before me and the public thought for
Viet Nam at
that time was the same view it has now for child molestation.
Viet Nam was
winding down too military wise.
The statement above for region location is something new to me. I
did not
know and have not been aware of the designation you show above
such as 'South
Korea' in relation to Team number. However, this may be something
more
recent.
The resolve where Teams would be located did not come finally
until 1975 and
is still subject for relocation for center locale. In 1982 it was
rumored
they would all be combined on the south coast. Just rumors. 6 and
the new
8 are units I know nothing about since they are really under the
actual true
umbrella 'ops' types operations and I do not know their details
or what they
do. Team 2 practiced for ship interdiction and was the true
resolvers for
the Achilles Laurel ship hijacking though the media credited the
Marines.
However, they do everything else too not reserved for that above.
The Pol Pot connection with the Khmer Rouge with support of the
Chinese
communist served as the last and most severe potential faction
for continued
upset in the southeast asia region as Viet Nam was winding down
for America.
I never saw or was in Viet Nam ever.
Robert Stephens
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I then forwarded this to the VeriSEAL contact and this was his reply:
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From: "VeriSEAL" <agile@ix.netcom.com>
Organization: Phony SEAL Hall of Shame
To: Michael Theroux <director@borderlands.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:06:01 +0000
Subject: Re: More info from ROBERT STEPHENS
Reply-to: agile@ix.netcom.com
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b)
Michael,
For starters, you indicated his resume claims attachment to ST-3
from '70-
'74. ST-3 didn't exist at that time. Secondly, he is nowhere to
be found in
the SEAL personnel records archives. Lastly, as demonstrated by
his
message which you were kind enough to forward, he doesn't have
the
slightest idea what he's talking about.
His name will eventually be prominently posted in the Hall of
Shame.
Ciao,
Dana
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And finally, I spoke with Mr. J.H. "Hoot" Andrews, USN, Ret. Retired from SEAL Team TWO. See his post on Art Bell's website: http://bbs.rowlandnet.com/cgi-bin/WebX?14@@.ee6c827/46 . He reiterated what I had already heard, and verified that Robert A.M. Stephens is a fake.
I called Mr. Stephens after this and asked him some questions about this. He said he had never heard of Senior Chief Kent Dillingham, one of the plankowners of ST-3 in 1983 (see above) and the very SEAL team of which Stephens was supposedly attached. I asked him about the VeriSEAL's claims, and why if he felt these people were wrong, did he not take issue with them? He said he did not care.
I told Mr. Stephens that I would be forced to take down his website because of his fraudulent statements, and he replied that that was fine and that I should expose him as a fraud , fake, pathological liar, etc. I agreed. He did say he would be forwarding a letter from Larry Mauk confirming his contracting work with NASA.
I admit that I should have investigated him more thoroughly from the start - as Richard Hoagland said on Art Bell's show, "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog!". This is really quite true, but I must say that a good investigation will reveal alot.
While Mr. Stephens appears to have been deluded, it by no means makes all of his points and statements, invalid. But, how are we to believe anything he has said in light of this information? Does the "NORAD/Fence" database exist? Does the "Blind Transom" DoD tracking software exist? What about his alien implant information? Probably not.
Now, we are left with the question, "What was Robert A.M. Stephens' motivation for all of this?" Was it for his "15 minutes" (actually an hour) of fame? Or, was it some sinister coverup plot devised by whomever he may be really working for? Perhaps we'll never know.
UPDATES to Follow
January, 04 1998
Michael Theroux
Director
Borderland Sciences Research Foundation - Since 1945
http://www.borderlands.com
theroux@borderlands.com
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