Kathleen Marden is a leading authority on UFO contact, the author of several books, a featured on-camera commentator, and an international lecturer. She earned a B.A. degree in social work and worked as an educator and education services coordinator while attending graduate school. She is certified as a practitioner of regression hypnosis and the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique. Her interest in UFOs and contact began in 1961, when her aunt and uncle, Betty and Barney Hill had a close encounter and subsequent abduction in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

Her books are “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”, “Science was Wrong” and “Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers” with nuclear physicist/scientific ufologist Stanton T. Friedman (1934-2019), and “The Alien Abduction Files,” with Denise Stoner. Her fifth book is “Extraterrestrial Contact: What to Do When You’ve Been Abducted” She is a contributor to FREE’s “Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness and Contact with Non Human Intelligence.” Her essays have been published in several additional books.

In 2018, she, Dr. Don C. Donderi, and several MUFON ERT members completed a 3-year comprehensive study on 516 experiencers. It was her third major research study on experiencers. Her 50-page report was published in the “MUFON 2018 International Symposium Proceedings”.