12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
There is no new information in this book., January 26, 2004
This review is from: Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control, and Spirituality (Paperback)
I have become very interested in the UFO and Alien Abduction phenomena, and have been reading voraciously any material that can shed insight on this incomprehensible contact with otherly beings. This book caught my eye because of its promise to explore the military abductions which Ms Haley has experienced. I was blindsided by the five-star review, only to find a vanity project with no new information to add to the ongoing debate.
The book covers the past decade of the author's life, which is a downward spiral of misfortune. The promised "abductions" are instead dreams that are billed as "virtual reality experiences". The only thing that kept me reading was the frequent references of her trips to Gulf Breeze, Florida, the UFO sighting hotbed in which I used to live.
I felt bad for Ms Haley while reading this, because she obviously has suffered, first by the hand of the aliens, then by the hand of society at large. Though she seems very nice, and perfectly reasonable in her thinking, it is clear in this recounting of her personal history that she is extremely paranoid, which is par for the course for a sufferer of post-traumatic stress disorder. In fact, the only reason to read this book would be to get inside the head of a victim of this disorder, or to see what lies in store for anyone willing to go public with their alien encounters. For that, there is value; for insight into the alien agenda, there is none.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Hath Leah Haley No Shame?, November 4, 2011
This review is from: Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control, and Spirituality (Paperback)
In March of 2011, Leah Haley-Ann Davenport gave an interview during which she retracted her alien abduction encounters. Since that time, with rare exception, everyone has been keeping their heads down low: WAY down low. For someone who garnered as much attention as Leah Haley did in the 1990's, retracting the past 20+ years of her life is a big deal in the world of Ufology. By her actions, Haley is taking down a lot of people with her, not the least of which is Dr. Karla Turner (now deceased) and abduction researcher John Carpenter, both of whom went beyond the call of duty to help this woman during her trials and tribulations with the "aliens". At least, that is what Haley claims in her book, for example, on page 206 where she writes, "I cannot forget the fact that John Carpenter has done much for abductees in the past".
"Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control and Spirituality" is important to re-examine because Haley uses the catch phrase "mind control and spirituality" in the title but when you read her book, there is next to no information regarding "mind control" and there is certainly nothing "spiritual" about her story (or her actions). The index of her book demonstrates this exceptionally well. For example, there are over 30 pages listed under the term "mind control" but not one government document is mentioned on those pages. What you will find in abundance are the author's off handed questions "...was it mind control?" and her answer "...who knows?"
This book has little meaningful information contained in its 312 pages and after all is said and done the reader is left with nothing other than the ranting of a whiny and naïve woman. I couldn't agree more with the other reviewer on this page in saying "...there is nothing new in this book".
BUT WAIT - MAYBE THERE IS!
Since this book was published in 2003 it would seem the author had method to her madness. She calculatingly went from "alien abductee" in "Lost Was the Key" to "milabs abductee" (whatever the heck that is) and today, with her having retracted all of her ET experiences, we are left with "government mind control"....Let me rephrase that: We are left with NOTHING. Leah Haley didn't provide one citation that would help the reader understand the nature and type of alleged mind control she was and is supposedly still suffering from.
When one reads this book you can't help but be taken aback by themes such as this one from page 88, "I became addicted to communicating with Greg about UFOs, abductions, spirituality....I felt good, high....after only a short time without communicating with him, I crashed to a low, depressed state and needed my quick fix again".
Another from page 146 is also illuminating, "Marc seemed to meet all of the qualifications, except that he was married. In fact, he mentioned to me that he was very happily married....I could not understand why God would promote the breakup of a marriage..."
God promotes the breakup of marriages? How spiritual is that? Are we serious? And what of Greg? Was he married too?
On page 214 Haley admits to having failed a lie detector test about her abductions and even more disquieting is what she writes on page 220, "I was cruising at about 70 miles per hour. I started passing a car when a masculine "voice" told me to run the car I was passing off the road. A few days after that, I was home alone, cooking dinner...when the same sort of voice told me to stick my arm in the oven and burn it".
There is something very unusual going on with Haley and it's doubtful it's alien abductions or mind control. It is not out of the realm of possibility that Haley is perpetrating a fraud on the folks who are honest, have an open mind and want to learn more about the UFO subject. Yes, there are some "UFO kooks" out there but for the most part UFO believers are legitimately interested in determining the truth about the unusual objects seen in our skies, not to mention the strange and terrifying figures that kidnap some of those poor souls. To add further injury to insult, Haley is continuing to sell her "pro alien" books while at the same time denying she ever saw an ET, much less got abducted by one. So, I ask: Leah Haley, have you no shame?
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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Leah Haley has recanted by saying alien abductions don't happen, October 25, 2011
This review is from: Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control, and Spirituality (Paperback)
I read this book a couple of years ago and I was dissapointed with it. I didn't feel there was anything in the book regarding alien abductions as a whole. Now she has publicly stated that alien abductions do not happen and that she can explain away every alien abduction with human technology and mind control. You can reference these articles at The Alien Jigsaw for her statements. Save your money and buy another book that has some real information on alien abductions. She should pull all her books about alien abduction off the market. She's making money on a topic that she now says doesn't exist.
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