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Welcome to the Betty and Barney Hill Official Site

Kathleen Marden is an internationally recognized UFO abduction researcher, author, and lecturer with more than three decades of experience in investigation, research, and public education. She earned her B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and completed graduate studies in education at the University of Cincinnati and UNH. A former educator and program supervisor, she later served for ten years as Director of MUFON’s Field Investigator Training Program and another ten years as Director of MUFON’s Experiencer Research  Team. She is the recipient of the International  UFO Congress Lifetime  Achievement Award and currently serves as a MUFON lifetime member, benefactor, and research consultant.

At age thirteen, Marden became directly connected to history when her aunt and uncle, Betty and Barney Hill, reported the first scientifically investigated UFO abduction in U.S. history. She later compiled the permanent Hill archival collections at the University of New Hampshire Library. She has devoted most of her life to the investigation of her aunt’s and uncle’s UFO incident.

Marden is the author or coauthor of several major works, including Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, Science Was Wrong, The Alien Abduction Files, Fact, Fiction and Flying Saucers, Extraterrestrial Contact, and Forbidden Knowledge. She has appeared in over 65 television productions and has lectured nationally and internationally.

BETTY AND BARNEY HILL

Betty and Barney Hills' UFO encounter and possible abduction by nonhumans are recognized as the first scientifically investigated UFO abduction in the United States. Their close encounter with an unconventional aerial vehicle occurred on the night of September 19 and into the early morning hours of September 20, 1961, in New Hampshire’s White Mountain region.

Their arrival at their  Portsmouth, NH home brought new disquieting discoveries. They were concerned that they could have been contaminated because the unconventional craft hovered close to their 1957 Chevy Bel Air. They had arrived home later than they had anticipated. They discovered perplexing evidence including Betty’s torn dress, Barney’s deeply scraped shoes, watches that had become permanently inoperable, a severed leather binocular strap, and new shiny spots on their vehicle’s trunk. When a compass was placed over the spots the needle whirled indicating the presence of a magnetic field.

The following day they reported the craft’s size, erratic flight pattern, and buzzing tones to an officer at Pease Air Force Base. It became an official Project Blue Book report. Barney tried to forget about it whereas Betty read her first book on the subject. Inside the book she found an address for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and a request for contact by anyone who had observed a UFO. Within days of reading the book, Betty typed a letter to NICAP Director Major Donald Keyhoe (USMC ret.), and this brought Walter Webb, a Boston astronomer and NICAP investigator to the Hills’ home. 

Their story, the impact, and the evidence are available on this website. Select any essay from the top menu to learn more about this extraordinary evidence case. Detailed information in the only case study of their event and hypnosis is available in the authoritative book of the Hills' UFO experience Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience. Autographed copies of all Kathleen Marden's books are available at her bookstore. Her books are also available in all formats at major online bookstores.

THE DEFINITIVE WORK ON THE MOST IMPORTANT UFO ABDUCTION

OF THE 20TH CENTURY

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Nuclear Physicist Stanton T. Friedman, MSc. and social researcher/scholar Kathleen Marden have devoted years of meticulous research and investigation to the Hills' UFO encounter and alleged abduction by extraterrestrial beings. Vetted by Bruce Maccabee, PhD, Linda Moulton Howe, and Stanton Friedman, "Captured!" is a case study of the Hill's UFO encounter and abduction in 1961. 
In a world filled with fake news, this book reveals an accurate, evidence backed account of who the Hills were as people, what happened to them on the night of September 19, 1961, the violation of confidentiality that carried their story to the public, the social and emotional impact of their anomalous events, Kathleen Marden's careful comparative analysis of the Hills' separate statements under hypnosis, the archival records, the scientific evaluation of the evidence, and Betty's life and experiments after Barney's death in 1969.
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 "...The definitive work on the most important abduction case of the twentieth century." Richard Dolan, author of UFOs and the National Security State

BETTY AND BARNEY HILL

RESEARCHER/INVESTIGATOR KATHLEEN MARDEN

For more than forty years, Kathleen Marden has personally researched the perplexing nature of UFOs and the non-human entities associated with highly advanced aerial vehicles via her own groundbreaking research, investigation, and experimentation. Her research has extended to archival collections, the US government’s involvement in the investigation of UFOs, and its major studies. This has combined to give her a depth of knowledge that few possess.

2012
Researcher of the Year Award
The Mutual UFO Network 
 2021
Lifetime Achievement Award
 International UFO Congress 

KATHLEEN'S CAREER AS A SCHOLAR AND UFO INVESTIGATOR

  • Engaged in scholarly research in physical archives, groundbreaking investigation, and social research on UFO abductees and ET contact experiencers. 
  • Conducted scholarly research and authorship on academic hypnosis studies and earned hypnotherapy and QHHT certificates.
  • Worked on four studies on nearly 5000 participants. (Marden-Stoner, FREE, MUFON, Marden-Barton).
  • Conducted archival research at physical archives on UFO and disinformation history.
  • Shared her findings in several books and one DVD.
E.T. Contact is a survivor's guide to alien abduction.  (French & English)
Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers reveals the history of the US Government's UFO and the evidence from their own files. 
Listen to Betty and Barney Hill relive their close encounter and abduction "In Their Own Words."
The Alien Abduction Files details 6 of Kathleen's best cases of alien abduction. 
Science Was Wrong is a fascinating collection of stories about pioneers who did the "impossible." (Order at Amazon.)
Find Kathleen's books in all formats at Amazon.com.
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The NEW 60th anniversary edition update with new evidence.
Forbidden Knowledge reveals Kathleen's life story, her research, investigations, and experiments.
Extraterrestrial Contact: What to do When You've Been Abducted by Flying Disk Press, France (Order at Amazon)