Abduction Research Legend Kathleen Marden Presents at MUFON Florida at their January 2026 Meeting!
MUFON Florida State Director Matthew Kellison:
I'm very excited to announce that we will be hosting Kathleen Marden as our guest speaker next Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 at 6:30 PM Eastern for this month's meeting.
Pioneer investigator, social researcher, scholar, author and lecturer Kathleen Marden will share her presentation The ET Presence: A Multidisciplinary Assessment that highlights her far-reaching understanding of UAP phenomena, including the physical and paraphysical investigation of ET contact events, new academic scientists’ findings, social research findings on the commonalities that experiencers of nonhuman intelligence share, contact and communication experiments, the spiritual and religious implications of contact with NHI, and the long history of denial by the military-industrial-intelligence complex.
Kathleen 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 and a half 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 at 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 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. Visit Kathleen's website at www.kathleen-marden.com
Warmest regards,
Matthew Kellison
State Director, Florida MUFON
Experiencer Resource Team Member
Email: [email protected]
