Kathleen Marden
Kathleen is also the recipient of the International UFO Congress Lifetime Achievement Award. During her years as a UFO investigator and researcher, Kathleen worked on three studies of nearly 5,000 experiencers (Marden-Stoner, FREE, MUFON ERT). Her compassion for these unfairly-targeted innocents led to an alteration in her focus from cold investigation to advocacy of the respectful treatment of people who have interacted, willingly or unwillingly, with non-human entities.
Kathleen has appeared as an on-camera commentator on 38 television and video productions, and has appeared on innumerable radio shows and podcasts. She has also spoken at conferences both nationally and internationally.
Her bestselling book, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, was written with scientific UFOlogist and lecturer Stanton T. Friedman, MSc. The duo also coauthored two additional books: Science Was Wrong and Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers. Kathleen’s book with Denise Stoner, The Alien Abduction Files, includes her investigation of six inter-generational cases of ET contact. Her fifth book, Extra Terrestrial Contact: What to do When You’ve Been Abducted, is a comprehensive guide to UFO abduction phenomena and a self-help book for UFO abductees.
Kathleen’s latest book, Forbidden Knowledge: A Personal Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation, provides deeper insight into her own life history, investigations, and experiments.
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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, her parents, and siblings visited the Hill’s home. She has devoted years to painstaking investigation of the Hills' anomalous events and archival research on their UFO abduction case. As the trustee of Betty’s estate, she selected the files from Betty’s collection for a permanent archive at the Milne Special Collections Library at the University of New Hampshire.
From 1991-2023, Kathleen volunteered for MUFON in various positions, such as Director of Field Investigator Training and Founder / Director of MUFON's Experiencer Resource Team. Over a ten-year period, she expanded her team from three members to forty-five trained and seasoned specialists, and attracted Ph.D. and M.D. psychological and research consultants. In 2012, MUFON recognized Kathleen’s contributions by presenting her with a trophy. In 2015, MUFON dedicated its Symposium Proceedings to her and her team for “Working tirelessly to help experiencers from around the world get the help they need to cope with the extraordinary events happening to them in their lives.”