Kathleen Marden's Biographical Profile

     UFO researcher, author, scholar, and lecturer Kathleen Marden earned her B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire and participated in graduate studies in education at The University of Cincinnati and U.N.H. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Delta sociology honor society. During her fifteen years as an educator, she innovated, designed and implemented model educational programs. She also held a supervisory position, coordinating, training and evaluating education staff. Additionally, she taught adult education classes on UFO and abduction history. She served for ten years as MUFON’s Director of Field Investigator Training and another ten years as Director of MUFON’s Experiencer Research Team. She is also the recipient of the International UFO Congress Lifetime Achievement Award. Presently, she is a MUFON lifetime member, benefactor, and research consultant for the ERT.

     She also sat on the Advisory Board of the Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters. She has worked on four research studies on UFO abductees/experiencers with nearly five thousand participants.

     She was thirteen on September 20, 1961, when her aunt Betty Hill phoned her nearby home to report that, the previous evening, she and Barney had encountered a “flying saucer” in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. A primary witness to the evidence of the UFO encounter and the aftermath, Kathleen has intimate knowledge of the Hill’s biographical histories, personalities, and the never before published historical data pertaining to their UFO encounter.

     After Betty’s death in 2004, Kathleen compiled two permanent archival collections for the Milne Special Collection and Archives Department at the UNH Library. The Hills’ civil rights collection is comprised of documents, letters, photographs and newspaper articles pertaining to Betty’s and Barney’s social and political activities. Their UFO abduction collection contains all the relevant materials related to their UFO event in 1961.

     She has conducted extensive research in physical and online archives and engaged in investigation and experimentation into this most perplexing field of study, including topics that are considered unorthodox by most serious UFO researchers. Her premise is, "If we do not seek we will not find." She 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). Her latest book is Forbidden Knowledge: A Personal Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation.

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

     Contact Kathleen at www.kathleen-marden.com.

Praise for Kathleen’s work:

• Once again, author and investigator Kathleen Marden has made a remarkable contribution to the world of serious UFO literature. This wealth of practical, well-documented information contained in Extraterrestrial Contact: What to Do When You’ve Been Abducted will be invaluable to experiencers and abductees as well as to educators, mental health professionals, and serious students of ufology worldwide.                                                                                       ~ Peter Robbins, author, investigative writer, and long-time assistant to pioneer UFO abduction researcher Budd Hopkins (published in “Extraterrestrial Contact.”)

• Kathleen continues to be a leader in the search into the mystifying saga of paranormal contact. She is a notable presenter on the phenomena, and her groundbreaking work cannot be ignored. I admire Kathleen.                        ~ Derrel Sims, RHA, CMHt, The Alien Hunter (published in “Extraterrestrial Contact.”

• Kathleen Marden is not only the niece of Betty and Barney Hill but is also one of the leading UFO researchers of our time. Her collaboration with the legendary researcher Stanton Friedman has resulted in the definitive work on the most important UFO abduction case of the twentieth century.                                                                                      ~ Richard Dolan, historian, UFO researcher, and author (published in the 60th anniversary update on “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.”)

• It is a difficult path to report news from the tangled web of government denial policies about non-human interactions with this planet. But ultimately, the official phony denials can't last forever in the face of so many first-hand human experiences and testimonies since the historic 1961 Betty and Barney Hill encounter with non-humans in New Hampshire that left physical residue of dress stains, scuffed shoe tops and an odd pattern of shiny circles on top of their car’s trunk. Betty's niece, Kathleen Marden, and her coauthor Denise Stoner, now add from their alien abduction files more meticulously investigated high strangeness with nonhuman entities in the lives of two American families that have been physically, mentally, and spiritually affected, as so many thousands of other families have been for more than 50 years. Each new voice adds pressure to the question: When will Earth life be publicly introduced to other cosmic life?                                                                                                                                                                                        ~ Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, reporter, and editor of Earthfiles.com, (published in “The Alien Abduction Files”)

• I have known Kathy Marden for several years, lecturing at conferences together, co-presenting on expert abduction panels, and responding to questions from anxious audiences. She is a highly respected colleague for her work, her experience, and her knowledge.                                                                                                                                               ~ Yvonne Smith, CHT, President, CERO International, and author (published in “Extraterrestrial Contact”)

• There can never be enough praise for Kathleen Marden and her work, which will bring us closer to unraveling the abduction mystery and empower people from all walks of life to shine the light on this reality.                              ~ Yvonne Smith, CHT, President, CERO International, author (published in “Extraterrestrial Contact”)