Kathleen Marden’s insatiable interest in UFOs and ET contact began in 1961 when her aunt and uncle Betty and Barney Hill had a close encounter and UFO abduction in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. As a family member, Kathleen gained firsthand knowledge of Betty’s and Barney’s UFO encounter on the day they arrived home and two days later, she visited the Hill’s home. She has devoted years to painstaking investigation of the Hills' anomalous events and archival research on their UFO abduction. As the trustee of Betty’s estate, she selected her aunt and uncle’s historical records for a permanent archival collection at the Milne Special Collections Library, UNH Library, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. 

 

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire in 1971 and engaged in graduate studies at the University of Cincinnati and UNH while working as an educator and education services coordinator. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society. In the mid-1980’s she launched a new career as an investigator,
researcher, and author.

 

From 1991-2023, she volunteered for the Mutual UFO Network in various positions such as National Director of Field Investigator Training and National Founder/Director of MUFON's Experiencer Research Team. Over a ten-year period, Kathleen expanded her team from three members to forty-five trained, seasoned specialists and attracted several PhD and MD psychological and research consultants. She is also the recipient of the International UFO Congress Lifetime Achievement Award. 
 

Additionally, she has engaged in scholarly research and authorship as well as academic studies pertaining to hypnosis and earned certificates as a hypnotherapist and Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique practitioner.  

 

She has worked on four social research studies on nearly 6,000 experiencers (Marden-Stoner, Edgar Mitchell FREE, MUFON ERT, Marden-Barton) with several PhD researchers. She sat on FREE’s advisory board and worked directly on the MUFON ERT’s study on 516 ET contact experiencers. She and Don C. Donderi, PhD (McGill University, retired) worked on phase 2 of MUFON’s Experiencer Survey, the American Personality Inventory.
 

She has witnessed and researched a psychological intimidation and disinformation campaign against the Hills and other UFO abductees/ET contact experiencers of similar status. Her compassion for unfairly targeted innocents led to an alteration in her focus from investigation to support and advocacy. She continues to advocate respectful treatment for people who have interacted, willingly or unwillingly, with non-human entities.

 

As a scholarly researcher, she has conducted extensive research in physical and online archives and is the primary author or coauthor of several books. Her bestseller with scientific ufologist and lecturer Stanton T. Friedman, MSc. (1934-2019) is Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (second edition in 2021.). They coauthored two additional books Science Was Wrong (published in Chinese) and Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers. Her book with Denise Stoner The Alien Abduction Files includes her investigation of six inter-generational cases of ET contact. Her fifth book Extraterrestrial Contact: What to do When You’ve Been Abducted is a comprehensive guide on UFO abduction phenomena and a self-help book for UFO abductees (published in French and English). In 2021 she updated and authored new sections in the 60th anniversary edition of Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. She has authored two editions of Forbidden Knowledge: A Personal Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation (2022 and 2024).
 

She has appeared as an on-camera expert on sixty two television and video productions, and
innumerable radio shows, and podcasts. Additionally, she has presented at conferences across the
United States and in several foreign countries.

Find Kathleen at www.kathleen-marden.com.