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Lost Was the Key

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The title of this review is a 2011 quote from the author, Leah A. Haley-Ann Davenport that I stumbled across on Face Book. I have read and studied all of Haley's books so I followed the URLs, read her interview and articles, and discovered the author has indeed retracted her alien abduction encounters.

This book (with extra large print ostensibly to make the reader think they are getting more bang for their money) was a "sensation" on the UFO scene when it was published in 1993. Buttressed by the Gulf Breeze sighting craze and some of the more naïve personalities in the area, especially conference promoters, Leah became the darling of the UFO abduction movement.

Haley writes that she was on-board a UFO when it was "shot down" by the U.S. military (Eglin AFB); perhaps the wildest and most far-fetched claim to ever come out of abduction lore. Because of my work and the geographic area I cover, I've been able to watch this case unfold and disintegrate over the past (nearly) two decades, and to be honest, I'm not surprised.

What is most depressing about what Haley is doing, is while she has the right to change her mind, the manner in which she is handling this could not be more reprehensible. She continues to sell her pro alien books (even on her own Web site at Greenleaf publications) while at the same time denying any alien abductions ever occurred to her. This is an affront to people such as Ed Walters (see The Gulf Breeze Sightings) and the many other residents of Gulf Breeze, who not only saw the same or a very similar craft hovering in their skies, but experienced "real" abductions in their own lives. Their craft was not the UFO Haley was on-board for certain: We now know Leah Haley's "UFO" never existed.

There are people referenced in "Lost Was the Key", and others who were totally ignored, who gave Leah Haley support and a helping hand when she needed it most. We can only imagine what they must be thinking now that Haley says alien abductions never happened to her. How could they have been so easily fooled?

I encourage people to read this book, but don't buy it from Leah at Greenleaf publications. Buy a used copy from individual sellers and continue to support Amazon and the truth. But read this book very carefully. If you do, you will see how outlandish and far-fetched Leah's story was, and how she was able to draw sincere, caring people into her web of mendacity.

Today, Haley wishes everyone to believe it was all government backed mind control. No doubt she has another book in the works. Don't be fooled, and don't nourish the author with the attention she so desperately thrives upon.

Everyone who has read "Lost Was the Key" should contact Leah Haley at the address on her Web site and ask her why she is perpetuating this lie by continuing to make a profit off of something she claims never happened. "Office" at "greenleafpublications" is a dot com site.

For more about The Gulf Breeze Sightings and Abductions in Gulf Breeze see these two books available from Amazon

The Gulf Breeze Sightings: The Most Astounding Multiple Sightings of Ufos in U.S. History

Ufo Abductions in Gulf Breeze

Leah Haley's book purports to be an account of repeated alien abduction discovered through hypnotic regression, and as such is a celestial cousin of Whitley Strieber's more famous Communion, and its sequels. She sounds perfectly sincere about all this, and it is courageous of her to expose herself to the inevitable ridicule that such accounts attract. What is particularly disturbing about Ms Haley's story is that she claims to have been stalked, abducted, examined and harassed by OMAGS ("obnoxious military and government scoundrels") from Planet Earth, as well as by the little "chalky-coloured" men. Is this fact imitating X-Files? Since she doesn't have all the answers to her numerous questions (why, who, where, when, etc), the book cannot help but have an unresolved quality, but that heightens its credibility. All the same, I don't dare to be 100% convinced. If some of her conclusions are true, the future of the human race doesn't bear contemplation. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Once Leah Haley announced that alien abductions never happened, how can any information from any of her books be taken seriously? Since Haley has changed her mind about the material in her own books, she will likely do it again. Haley appears to show a total lack of conviction of what her personal experiences were. Since her book is full of her visions, voices, alien guide Ceto, military harassment, and hypnosis sessions, I doubt that anything she wrote in the book really happened the way she said it did. Alien abduction is not taken lightly by those who are really suffering through it. Unfortunately, it appears that to Leah Haley, it was just some kind of game to play.

If you are looking for real material on alien abductions, this is not your book. Leah Haley has now admitted that she is not and has not been an alien abductee, and proclaims that alien abductions do not exist and it is all a result of military mind control. In my opinion, this book contains mostly contactee or new age-experiencer type material. The "messages" the aliens give Leah Haley relate to God and a belief in God, and little else. Then there are the usual "messages" that Earth is in danger, the aliens are here to help us, and the aliens are Leah's friends. The aliens which Haley talks about sound child-like in this book, and several features that Haley takes on faith seem bizarre upon further consideration. Haley names one alien -- Ceto -- as some kind of alien guide; if you research the name, Ceto references a primordial sea goddess in Greek mythology.

If Leah Haley has said that her experiences with aliens never happened, then why should we believe her military encounters happened to her the way she says they did? Her alien messages are so wrapped up into her religious beliefs that they sound contrived. Why would any military organization generate Leah's belief in aliens only to threaten her to not research it? How can one tell what is really going on here? If the book is this flawed and Haley doesn't believe in alien abduction, then why are her alien abduction books still being sold on her website?

Haley's anti abduction statements, which have surfaced in various blogs and message boards on the internet, have done immeasurable harm and constitute a slap in the face to people who are trying to find out legitimate information about alien encounters in their lives.

Leah Haley has now (2011) publicly stated that alien abductions do not happen--not just in her own life, but that alien abductions are all the result of military mind control. Those who have researched alien abduction experiences may therefore find the following observations enlightening.

After reading this book, it became clear to me that Leah Haley has divided her experiences into two camps. In one camp are the aliens along with Leah's belief in God and the comforting relationship she has with them; in the other reside the evil military and government agents who harass and torture Leah for her information about the aliens.

Haley views the aliens as protective of her, saying they will take care of her and not allow her to be raped by a reptilian being. The aliens tell her she needs to spread the word about their existence, and they need her help to do this. The aliens are all a part of God's plan, and she is a part of some future mission. Leah writes that the family of God will be transported away from Earth to another universe, and that belief in God is a prerequisite for this evacuation. She is also told by the aliens that they are here to help us because we can't survive on Earth without their assistance. Haley initiates her contacts with aliens by declaring "I am willing to communicate with entities who love the Lord my God who serve Him and worship Him as their one and only God."

The aliens tell Leah she is being closely monitored by their "opponents" -- the military. The aliens are basically helpless against the evil military agents, as one of their spaceships is shot down and the poor aliens are borne away by government agents while Leah is screaming to help them. She describes seeing the fear in these poor creatures' eyes as she is being led away. Leah also relates sometimes hearing people who may be in her home, causing her to freeze in fear -- even with her children in the house. Haley claims the military was harassing her to force her to cease studying alien abductions, but she says nothing will stop her from researching the aliens and getting the truth out about those abductions.

Now Leah Haley has come forward and has said alien abductions don't happen at all, and it is all military mind control. So the military puts in her mind that the aliens are here to help us, and the aliens are with God and they are fighting the military. So why would the military do all this in the first place? Leah also writes in her book that she relies very heavily on hypnosis for both her alien and military encounters. The descriptions of these events are very brief -- don't expect much detail in any of these accounts. This book contains very little on alien abduction, and nothing that wasn't already widely known at the time the book was published. Now that she has publicly retracted all of her alien abduction experiences, it seems clear that Leah confused her relationship with God and her beliefs in aliens. So is Leah Haley's belief in God credited to military mind control as well? Only Leah can answer this question. The book lacks a certain sophistication of thought regarding the subject of alien abduction, and in light of Leah's recent recantation, nothing adds up.

Lost Was the Key is Leah Haley's personal account of alien abduction and governmental harassment. It is unlike any other abduction account I have read, as it incorporates in one story a great number of experiences shared by other individual abductees. She claims to have been abducted multiple times since early childhood; smallish, chalky-colored beings have examined her physically on a number of occasions and have removed eggs from her ovaries, ostensibly for the creation of hybrid children; aliens have inserted implants into her body, and she has discovered physical marks on her person that coincide with her experiences. She has interacted with more than one type of alien, including a reptilian race of beings apparently at odds with the race of her interstellar guide Ceto. What is most important about her experiences, though, is her reported harassment at the hands of military and government agents on earth. She claims to have been abducted several times by such human agents, who drugged and interrogated her to get information about the aliens. Why the military should be so interested in her experiences becomes obvious when she quietly drops a bomb on the reader, saying that she was inside a spaceship that crash landed after having been shot down by the U.S. Air Force.

I'm not sure of my feelings for her story. I have met the author and heard her speak of her experiences, and she struck me then as quite credible. Her hypnotic regression sessions were handled by John Carpenter, who is well respected in the ufology community. Her writing is not polished; it most definitely reads as her own personal effort to describe the things she has remembered and learned in her own way; it is in no way a slick presentation targeted at the reader. She constantly jumps around from one experience or idea to another, which I found pretty frustrating. She has many questions and very few answers. Clearly, what makes this book stand out is her reported encounters with very human government agents; the personal trauma and excessive harassment she claims to have suffered at human hands is, if true, exceedingly grievous. I really can't commit myself either way in this case; Haley makes so many claims that one has to be somewhat skeptical, although I have no reason to disbelieve her story. She herself never comes to any firm conclusions about her experiences, constantly questioning her own sanity every step along the way. This is truly a unique abduction account, and for that reason I would encourage any potential reader to familiarize himself/herself with the literature associated with this phenomenon before attempting to sort out the complexities of Haley's reported experiences.

This author has claimed to be an alien abductee since the 1990's. It is inconceivable after all of these years of being in the public eye exclaiming she wanted to get the truth out about the reality of alien abductions, that now Haley has announced that alien abductions don't exist. What about the people who are really going through these experiences? What this author has done is disgusting and despicable.

The actual alien encounters described within her books are not much in regards to description, information, and detail. Now I understand why that is. Leah Haley's books are total fabrications. Leah Haley has now admitted that alien abductions were never real to her at all.

It is a shame to admit; colonization of our planet by inhuman creatures who are demonic in nature is a fact! This brave women eloquently describes her reality in a heartfelt manner;clear and consise, considering the REAL nature of our earth and aliens.We are asked to really put aside our programming by an elite military entertainment complex and admit that we have been found, tagged and bred! We are their property; like lab-rats to, the owners of the black triangles. Read this book! and lucid dream of resistance, citizens!