I have no doubt that Leah Haley is sincere in her belief and that this has been reinforced by hypnotic sessions and dubious practices.
Look at the account; Leah and her brother spot a "UFO" one day -we'll use the term but as the witnesses were children it might have been something we could identify today; they do not discuss the matter for decades which reveals that it was not really that major an incident in their lives.
One day Leah thinks back to the incident and asks her mother about it but nothing until her brother arrives and here is what I would call the abduction inception idea (AII). Her brother recalls the UFO which is fair enough but he then goes on to tell her how he has watched TV shows, etc in which people who see UFOs are abducted and tells here more.
The seed is now planted and set into her thinking: why have they not talked about a UFO they saw as kids yet both remembered just never discussed? Wait -people seeing UFOs and not recalling more have been proven to be abductees? If the person involved is of the right frame of mind then that little seed will begin the sprout roots -they will look at a scar they have had on their leg since a child and when the parent asked cannot recall how the person got said scare; it becomes a mystery.
"OMG! I wake up around 3 AM!" This is not a mystery or UFO related and I have explained this waking at a specific time on this blog and in my books. It is natural. No alien influence involved but to someone who has that seed planted in their mind....
Jump to the hypnotist and that couch and you explain that you saw a UFO as a kid but that's all you recall and you have a mystery scar and you wake up at 3AM and then you are sunk. With David Jacobs he will tell you that you are a lifelong abductee, have been made pregnant and lost the foetus many times and that when you can't remember what you did on a certain date -you were mind controlled to do something then the memory was erased (usually the superior hybrids need you to buy a loaf of bread for them or show them how to flush a toilet as...well, they ain't the brightest in the galaxy). Budd Hopkins would probably spin a good yarn out of this as even when he knew cases were fake he pushed them to international audiences -it's earning a buck or two, right?
In some cases you have "false pregnancies" (pseudocyesis). People with pseudocyesis have pregnancy symptoms, but tests will confirm there's no pregnancy and most healthcare providers believe psychological and hormonal factors may cause it. Oh no, not if Hopkins and Jacobs or Carpenter were involved: the aliens got you pregnant then stole the foetus!
As I have noted before -if you talk to or listen to someone who believes that they have been abducted by aliens you will find the AII if you listen carefully. It is the duty of the person taking on a case to not jump straight to a hypnotist and those who do are disreputable; you need to know your subject and having "read all the Hopkins, Jacobs and other abduction books" does not count. Neither does You Tube documentaries. The people and investigators behind all of those are disreputable at best and money grubbers willing to psychologically torture "subjects" with false memories at worst.
It is a slow process and means getting to know the person involved and explain to them at the very outset that it may seem very real to them but there are explanations that do not involve UFO abduction. These are human beings and not cash cows to be milked for all their worth and then discarded.
We can see classic cases of AII with Karla Turner and Raymond Fowler and it is all documented in their own words and in their own books.
If we go by the anecdotal evidence, which is all we have, then it seems that there are genuine one off UFO abductions because many facts cannot be explained away and the fact that debunkers have had to resort to offering large sums of money to abductees to say they were never abducted proves a point.
I believe that Dr Leo Sprinkle was becoming aware of the psychological implications as well as false memory and it is a pity that professionals such as he were pushed away in favour of untrained, unprofessional con men and amateur fantasy pushers.
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