Leah Haley on Alien Abduction: “It Doesn't Happen”

[Christopher O'Brien]

Leah Haley on Alien Abduction: “It Doesn't Happen”

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Former self-described alien abductee Leah Haley has revised her perspectives about her experiences of high strangeness to conclude that no alien abductions ever took place in her life. She now completely attributes her remarkable perceptions to having been an involuntary research subject. Commenting on literal alien abduction from her home in Pensacola, Florida, Haley stated, “It doesn't happen.”

Haley attracted widespread attention within the UFO community in 1993 with the publication of her book, Lost Was the Key, in which she described her extraordinary experiences consisting of fragmented memories of UFOs and apparent non-human beings. She became a well known speaker and was commonly sought for interviews. Ten years later she published Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control and Spirituality, further documenting her descent into an increasingly complex web of deceit, disinformation and character assassination within ufology. Sales of her books climbed well into the thousands although word of mouth was virtually the only means of marketing.



Haley initially thought aliens were responsible for her experiences but that changed following years of investigation. She long acknowledged military personnel were involved in her experiences to some extent, but she fully re-evaluated circumstances after viewing select Freedom of Information Act and U.S. Patent Office documents. Haley further based her revised conclusions on hundreds of interactions with abductees and researchers, as well as having mysterious individuals enter and later abruptly vanish from her life. She is now thoroughly convinced mind control experiments are responsible for what became known as the alien abduction phenomenon.

“I really can explain every alien abduction away using human technology,” Haley said.

Commenting on what she termed “legitimate” reports of abduction, she continued, “I don't know for sure, but every case that I know very, very well – every single one of them – if I probe deeply enough, I'm going to find that there were humans here and there too. That tells me that it was a human-instigated situation. I can't think of a single case, not a single one, that I've really delved into that didn't have humans in it too, so I just don't think alien abductions are happening. I don't know, but I just don't think they are.”
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[Sean Elifritz]

So let's get this right; it wasn't aliens...but the government? Is that what she's saying? Aside from there being no more evidence for that than aliens what motive would the government possibly have to kidnap her or anyone else and lead them to believe it was aliens? She talks about documents detailing government research into mind control but what hasn't the US government looked into at some point? At one time or another there is a think tank and/or research team looking into anything and everything for the government. If you can conceive of it, there's a white paper sitting in a government file somewhere about it. That the government has looked at mind control doesn't equate to evidence that it is sending out squads of federal agents to nab housewives and falsely convince them it was done by extraterrestrials.

She's gone from one extreme to another. Has she considered that she's never been abducted by anyone, not by aliens or government stooges? That she simply is just one more in a long line of people to be convinced of erroneous things by improperly applied hypnosis?

 

[exo_doc]

So she's blowing off every other abductees story?
She's speaking for, or at, the whole abductee community? Telling them they really didn't experience what they think happened to them?
Talk about balls and gall.

I have always been skeptical of abduction stories, but I have doubted very few were insincere or lying (with exceptions like Adamski and Meier, they make my bullshit detectors explode).
I really think there is SOMEthing going on there,....but government experimentation? That almost makes alien abductions sound plausible.

 

[Christopher O'Brien]

So she's blowing off every other abductees story? She's speaking for, or at, the whole abductee community? Telling them they really didn't experience what they think happened to them? Talk about balls and gall..

Gall & balls? Maybe so, but what would you call Horn's assertion that the Meir case is THE ONLY true, genuine abduction case? :0

 

[exo_doc]

Gall & balls? Maybe so, but what would you call Horn's assertion that the Meir case is THE ONLY true, genuine abduction case? :0

What would I call it?....uhhh.....errrr...nutsy monkey-batshit koo koo?
Ya know, I normally like cutting edge people and ideas, but this isn't one of them. This is mental dysfunction of the kind that doesn't let you process your sensory input without it going through a "I'm Nucking Futz" filter.

 

[tyder001]

Wickerman said much of what I was thinking. The government abduction scenerio sounds just as silly as the alien abduction one. I think, and I am not an expert. But, I think she may be suffering from a mental illness. For one thing when one thing (alien abduction) breaks down she grabs onto something else. All the while the answer may be in her mirror. I highly doubt aliens are abducting people. But, I also see no logical reason for the government to be taking people and planting alien memories into them either. I came onto this board very skeptical of the ufo experience. Still, I've had a few experiences that I consider out of the so called norm. But, I have become more and more convinced over the years that the ufo myth, is just that!

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As a footnote. I would love to be proven wrong. It would be exciting to wake up tomorrow and hear that the intergalatic federation of worlds has opened talks with earth. To see that all our assumptions about reality are the first steps and that the universe has so much more to show. Actually, I do think the universe has much more to show. So, I'm not a cranky old skeptic that just wants to say "I told you so." I look forward to Childhood's End.

 

[exo_doc]

Wickerman said much of what I was thinking. The government abduction scenerio sounds just as silly as the alien abduction one. I think, and I am not an expert. But, I think she may be suffering from a mental illness. For one thing when one thing (alien abduction) breaks down she grabs onto something else. All the while the answer may be in her mirror. I highly doubt aliens are abducting people. But, I also see no logical reason for the government to be taking people and planting alien memories into them either. I came onto this board very skeptical of the ufo experience. Still, I've had a few experiences that I consider out of the so called norm. But, I have become more and more convinced over the years that the ufo myth, is just that!

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As a footnote. I would love to be proven wrong. It would be exciting to wake up tomorrow and hear that the intergalatic federation of worlds has opened talks with earth. To see that all our assumptions about reality are the first steps and that the universe has so much more to show. Actually, I do think the universe has much more to show. So, I'm not a cranky old skeptic that just wants to say "I told you so." I look forward to Childhood's End.

"Childhoods End?" Tyder, did you read that book? It had an awful ending, at least for most of mankind. All the children of the world seemingly mindless zombies gathered in Australia? While the rest of mankind degenerates into savages? And then to world is destroyed.
I don't think I want to loof forward to that.
I'd much rather have a Star Trek universe, green women and all.

 

[tyder001]

Lol. I thought of that right as I was posting. I was thinking of the title of the book but not the actual plot of the book. The title is a great but you are right. The actual book isn't something I want to live through.

 

[manxman]

Who needs aliens, 50 plus years and i still aint figured out woman, all ive learnt is, sometimes its best to say nothing.

 

[bbridges]

I do think that your reference to 'Childhood's End" was implying some critical transformation of mankind's understanding of himself-the 'opening up' of our perception perhaps, and with that a new empowerment of man in his environment. Crises often create such pressure on the individual and collective psyche, that new insights emerge that offer new approaches and solutions to intractable problems and conditions. We can only hope...

 

[norman shultze]

I was doing a search on this topic and came across something odd - I did a search on "leah haley" and "pensacola" and found this - anyone see this?

Pensacola Blues - Song for Leah Haley by Pensacola Blues (It Doesn't Happen) lyrics from Lyrics.net

A Song for Leah Haley by Pensacola Blues

some of the names r familiar - I posted on another forum, but no one commented so they must not know these people
me either all though some names r - have not been in this long though - she came up in a pensacola search too - wonder if she knows about this song? is she that famous? - thanx, Norm

 

[mike]

“I really can explain every alien abduction away using human technology,” Haley said.

That in itself sets of my BS alarm

Anyone who says they have the answers in this field is kidding themselves.


And this.......

if I probe deeply enough, I'm going to find that there were humans here and there too. That tells me that it was a human-instigated situation

It doesnt occur to her that any alleged species that supposedly has in their bag of tricks the ability to cross interstellar space, and implant screen memorys couldnt include elements that look human ?

 

[Goggs Mackay]

I've never been satisfied with most tales of abduction on first listen. Having said that, IF another intelligent species is visiting this planet it might make sense that they experiment/whatever.

The MILAB thing never made much sense it itself but IT DOES make sense if there is a genuine UFO coverup and the government knows some people are being abducted, they might be trying to 'tag' people to find out where they go when they are 'abducted'. So it could be a kind of humans trying to catch-up to the abducting aliens.

Most of the 'floating out the window' type deals or Meier or Adamski strike me as people being confused with something strange (I've had sleep paralysis myself and it absolutely has the power to make you think something really weird is happening) - but cases like Travis Walton don't seem to be so cut and dried - was he actually being saved? It seems HE stumbled into THEIR path and not the other way round.

 

[trainedobserver]

... If she truly does not believe that she is an alien abductee, then she should have pulled her books from sale on the Internet and she should have done it prior to Clueless Wonder publishing his ill fated interview with her. ...

What? Someone should pull their books from sale because they have changed their minds about something? That is a bit much Sean.

 

[trainedobserver]

Don't shoot the messenger, I posted this at Kay Wilson's request. It is her post, and article for that matter, not mine. I have nothing to say one way or the other on the matter.

To read the article you would think it was talking about a religious belief system that had been betrayed by some practitioner.

Where is the evidence that anything resembling what is described as "alien abductions" actually occurs anywhere outside of the mind? So much of this is taken on faith.

 

[trainedobserver]

I repeat, I have nothing to say one way or the other on the matter.

If you didn't want to talk about it, why post it?

 

[mike]

What? Someone should pull their books from sale because they have changed their minds about something? That is a bit much Sean.

I disagree Mate,

If youve published something you later believe is false, you should retract that false info imo.

If you continue to make money of something you know is BS, you are a con artist.

If her previous opinion and books about abduction could be considered a product, and she now considers that product is faulty, its appropriate to issue a product recall.

I get that its a book not a babys car seat, but still if you know your product is faulty, you should recall that product

 

[Goggs Mackay]

At the very least she should say that she no longer thinks people who believe in alien abduction should buy her book as a true tale of abduction.

It's a bit rich of this woman to now say all abductions can't be real. Just cos she has 'seen the light' or figured her own story out, that has zip to do with people she does not even know.

I'm always saying it but Travis Walton's case, if true, is the only one that sounds pretty well backed up and in that case as well, it seems to all be an accident.


I've been wondering for a while if abductions maybe are indeed carried out by ET but it is something that happens only on some mental level. Yes, you are taken out of bed or whatever and seemingly floated out into a spaceship for examination but you never really left your bed. Something was done with your consciousness. Who knows what an inter-stellar species might be able to do?

 

[trainedobserver]

Well, I don't think it is a common practice to withdraw a book from publication because your understanding or thinking about a subject has evolved or changed. I can't think of a single example.

These aren't religious texts or technical publications, they are personal accounts of someone's experiences and their beliefs at the time of writing. I think it should be pretty obvious that when you are talking tales of alien abduction, it is a buyer beware situation.

 

[Goggs Mackay]

Haha, that last bit is sooo true. Basically any 'paranormal' section in any bookshop is gonna probably be 99% shite.

Perhaps a fair solution to books no longer relevant in that way is that if it ever comes to getting a new edition printed, there could be an addition saying that the author no longer believes the books contents to be an accurate description of what happened to her.
But of course who is gonna buy a book about alien abduction if they know the author no longer thinks it happened to them, or indeed anyone else!