KATHLEEN MARDEN - Extraterrestrials, UFOs, and Alien Abductions: Kathleen Marden is a well-known UFO abduction researcher, author and lecturer with 23 years' experience in the field.
She is MUFON's Director of Abduction Research and FL MUFON's Director of Abduction Studies.
For ten years Kathy volunteered as MUFON's Director of Field Investigator Training.
In 2012, she was presented MUFON's "Ufologist of the Year" award.
She earned a B.A.
Degree in social work, with honours, from the University of New Hampshire in 1971, and participated in graduate studies in education while working as a teacher and education services coordinator.
She is also a certified hypnotherapist.
Her interest in UFOs dates back to September 20, 1961, when her aunt, Betty Hill phoned her nearby home to report that 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the aftermath, Kathleen has intimate knowledge of the Hill's biographical histories, personalities, and the previously unpublished historical files pertaining to their sensational story.
She is the author of three books, Captured!
The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, Science was Wrong, with nuclear physicist/scientific ufologist Stanton T.
Friedman, and The Alien Abduction Files, with Denise Stoner (May 2013 release).
Her chapter "UFO Abductions: Fact or Fiction" appears in UFOs and Aliens: Is There Anybody Out There?.
Her articles have been published in the MUFON UFO Journal, Open Minds magazine and on several websites.
Kathy has appeared in television and radio programs in the US, Canada and the UK, and has lectured throughout the United States.