The ET being Bashar (channeled live by Darryl Anka) talks about the 14th october event/non-event: 
http://10-14-08.blogspot.com/2008/10/2012-evolution-podcast-for-october-23rd.html 
Basically he says that contact is becoming more and more imminent due to mankinds rising level of consciousness, and that this is something that more and more people are "picking up on" or "downloading". He does not guarantee for that specific date, but repeats that an event like that is imminent.
Further, he says that sometimes it is necessary to give out a specific date like that in order to measure collective/individual response and "degree of readiness". A "dry run" in other words. It seems that Matthew and Bashar are pretty much on the same page with regards to this.
Quote from Bashar (as accurate as I bothered to

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				Lets make a comment on the fact that more and more people are recieving the impression that it will be happening. Sometimes the dates they (channelers/seers) recieve in this download of information is accurate and sometimes they are interpretations. But that is not really the point. The point is that more and more people know that contact is imminent. Thats what they are picking up on.
			
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