Kathleen Marden

Kathleen Marden earned a B.A. degree in Social Service and attended graduate school in Education during her career as an educator and education services coordinator. She also studied under the guidance of Betty Hill. Since 1991 she has volunteered for the Mutual UFO Network in various positions such as Director of Field Investigator Training and Founder/Director of MUFON's Experiencer Resource Team. Over a ten-year period, Kathleen expanded her team from three members to forty-five trained, seasoned specialists and attracted PhD and MD psychological and research consultants. Additionally, she sat on the Edgar Mitchell FREE Advisory Board. In this period, she worked on three studies on nearly 5,000 experiencers (Marden-Stoner, Edgar Mitchell FREE, MUFON ERT). She is presently working on the “Marden-Barton Survey of Religious Belief and Extraterrestrial Life,” which is available on her website. She has appeared as an on-camera commentator on fifty-five television and video productions and innumerable radio shows and podcasts. She has authored and coauthored numerous books and articles in UFO magazines and journals. She is the recipient of two major awards: MUFON’s Researcher Trophy and the International UFO Congress Lifetime Achievement Award. For additional information see her website at

www.kathleen-marden.com