Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control, and Spirituality

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Summary: Unlocking Alien Closets
Review: "Unlocking Alien Closets," Leah A. Haley's fourth book she has self-published, is a deeply personal and complex account of her life experiences. It begins where "Lost Was The Key" ended in January of 1992 and ends in February of 2003.

Leah Haley's life changed drastically in 1990 when she remembered two encounters that had occurred many years earlier. One involved a sighting of an unidentified craft and another involved non-human beings who took her aboard an alien craft and performed medical procedures on her.

She remembered these events when she was teaching accounting, was happily married with two children and living what she considered a "normal" life. All of that changed after she remembered these two events and started asking questions and began looking into the possibility that she had encountered non-human beings. When she did, she discovered that there appeared to be a group of humans, who she refers to as OMAGS who were very interested in her and the experiences she was remembering.

"Unlocking Alien Closets" introduces a type of experience, one that the late Dr. Karla Turner also wrote about, called VRE or virtual reality experiences. Leah has also included in this book dreams and dream-like experiences that are related to the abduction phenomenon.

Leah provides an overview of the main events that led her to publish her first book "Lost Was The Key." "Unlocking Alien Closets" covers a lot of new material that the reader will find very informative. I was impressed with everything she went through in order to find out what was happening to her and who was doing it while continuously trying to educate the public through her lectures, books, interviews and articles.

What struck me the most about this book is the deeply personal and painful life story Leah has shared with the public. The author herself describes part of this book as "...the high price I had to pay for going public with my experiences and details my ongoing struggle to cope. It also discusses the spiritual ramifications of my encounters." And indeed, she has had to pay - monetarily, emotionally and physically.

I knew of some of the debunking tactics that had been used against Leah over the years, but I was not completely aware of the depths to which some of these people had lowered themselves. There are some shocking revelations in this book which I hope that, rather than deterring other abductees to go public, will instead enlighten and teach them about the tactics that not only debunkers use, but some journalists, mental health care professionals and even people within the UFO community. There are good people out there who really want to find the truth and want to help abductees, but there are many more who do not.

Leah Haley shares all of herself with the reader in this book - her conscious life experiences, her dreams, virtual reality experiences, the negative things people have done to her and the positive things that have come out of her ordeal.

Despite losing her first husband through a very sad divorce, the love of one of her children, her dream home, jobs, her health for a time, and a lot of money, she still managed to publish this book. She was resolute so she could continue to fulfill what she believes is the reason God put her on Earth: to educate the public about the alien abduction phenomenon, and the way for her to do that is to tell the truth about what has happened to her.

"Unlocking Alien Closets" ends on a positive note with helpful advice to abductees, and although her experiences have not ended, Leah is on her way to a positive recovery from her ordeal with aliens _and_ humans.

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Summary: There is no new information in this book.
Review: 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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Summary: Unlocking Alien Closets
Review: Leah Haley not only describes alien encounters, abductions, and "missing time," she also relates how apparent military harassment, mind control and surveillance were a significant part of her experiences as well, including numerous appearances of the infamous black, unmarked helicopters. An accountant, wife, and mother, her normal, everday life suddenly took a very mysterious and unexpected detour in 1990, at the age of 39. It was a traumatic chain of events, as well as apparent repressed memories of two previous UFO experiences surfacing, that threw her personal world into major upheaval. She initially thought she was going insane. Even after a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and a psychiatric social worker had all told her that she wasn't insane, she still wasn't fully convinced. Not at first. Learning that others around the world had described such experiences swayed her a little, but she writes that it was the military aspect that kept cropping up in her situation that made her finally realize that they wouldn't be wasting their time and money on someone simply suffering mental illness.
But because she spoke out publicly about her experiences, she soon suffered the social consequences, and as a result lost her job and husband. Her ordinary world was turned inside out and upside down. The normal barriers and definitions no longer seemed adequate. Looking inward she prayed a lot and developed a spiritual lifeline that helped her through her traumatic ordeals. She entered into apparent telepathic contact with a mysterious presence she came to refer to as the "Silent Voice," although she wasn't sure she could trust it. She often wasn't sure just who she could trust. She discovered new things about herself and reality that no church or educational institution had prepared her for. Gradually and painfully, she became stronger and more evolved spiritually. She was drawn eventually into a relationship with ufologist Marc Davenport under some rather mysterious circumstances. The two of them developed a telepathic bond and became a determined team, with a mission to get the truth out about the UFOs and the abduction phenomenon.
This book provides a detailed and personal look into Leah's unusual and often traumatic experiences, and into her and Marc's struggles to bring the truth about UFOs out into the open and to the public.

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Summary: Unlocking Alien Closets
Review: Leah Haley not only describes alien encounters, abductions, and "missing time," she also relates how apparent military harassment, mind control and surveillance were a significant part of her experiences as well, including numerous appearances of the infamous black, unmarked helicopters. An accountant, wife, and mother, her normal, everday life suddenly took a very mysterious and unexpected detour in 1990, at the age of 39. It was a traumatic chain of events, as well as apparent repressed memories of two previous UFO experiences surfacing, that threw her personal world into major upheaval. She initially thought she was going insane. Even after a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and a psychiatric social worker had all told her that she wasn't insane, she still wasn't fully convinced. Not at first. Learning that others around the world had described such experiences swayed her a little, but she writes that it was the military aspect that kept cropping up in her situation that made her finally realize that they wouldn't be wasting their time and money on someone simply suffering mental illness.
But because she spoke out publicly about her experiences, she soon suffered the social consequences, and as a result lost her job and husband. Her ordinary world was turned inside out and upside down. The normal barriers and definitions no longer seemed adequate. Looking inward she prayed a lot and developed a spiritual lifeline that helped her through her traumatic ordeals. She entered into apparent telepathic contact with a mysterious presence she came to refer to as the "Silent Voice," although she wasn't sure she could trust it. She often wasn't sure just who she could trust. She discovered new things about herself and reality that no church or educational institution had prepared her for. Gradually and painfully, she became stronger and more evolved spiritually. She was drawn eventually into a relationship with ufologist Marc Davenport under some rather mysterious circumstances. The two of them developed a telepathic bond and became a determined team, with a mission to get the truth out about the UFOs and the abduction phenomenon.
This book provides a detailed and personal look into Leah's unusual and often traumatic experiences, and into her and Marc's struggles to bring the truth about UFOs out into the open and to the public.

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Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: This author is a real person. I have read some so called UFO books written by so-called normal people and they sound like they were written by professional writers, with a degree in English or something, rather than by a regular person. She wrote the book like it was a journal which is something I like. The author was being subjected to a lot of deception through different forces. She couldn't tell the difference between the two. It made me appreciate a book I've read by Marshall Vian Summers which is supposed to help you meditate and learn to differentiate between deception and truth when dealing with aliens. The author also writes these things and you can tell she doesn't know the validity of the things she is being told from these beings. She does bring up the usefulness of the Bible, illustrating that the stories have a greater meaning. I think the book is good, most of the things she says you can't take seriously because the source of it may be screen memories or even dreams. I still think the book is good because of the connection it draws between, UFO's and the bible.

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Summary: One of the all-time best
Review: This incredible book touches all the bases: alien abductions, spirituality, military interference, the debunkers, life, love, work and relationships. Leah is an excellent story-teller and does not pull any punches about the difficulties of being an alien abductee.

This is a worthy follow-up to her previous work, "Lost Was The Key," and it will educate those not familiar with the subject matter and illuminate those who are.

Leah is not afraid to describe the ups, and many downs that her life has taken her. There are some difficult parts to read, being that she was harassed from all sides: fellow workers, military and government agents, extraterrestrials and even so-called friends. But her resolve to lead her life with courage and ambition makes this book an inspiration and joyous affair.

I have read and reviewed many books on abductions since 1966's "Interrupted Journey" by J. G. Fuller, and this ranks at the very top with the best of Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs,
John Mack, Karla Turner and Walter Webb.

Expect a roller-coaster ride when reading this, but the thrills will be worth it, I guarantee it!

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Summary: Especially commended to the attention of UFO enthusiasts
Review: Unlocking Alien Closets: Abductions, Mind Control, And Spirituality is the personal testimony of an alien abductee. Author Lea A. Haley was a CPA living a normal life as an accounting instructor, wife, and mother, when the intrusion of alien life altered her perception forever. In Unlocking Alien Closets, Lea seeks to understand and connect aliens, UFOs, mind control and government coverups to God, the Bible, and human spirituality in this engrossing narrative of metaphysical thought and extraterrestrial contact. Unlocking Alien Closets is thoughtful and thought-provoking reading which is especially commended to the attention of UFO enthusiasts.