Alien Abduction: A Lifelong Search For Answers

This week I'm talking to Kathleen Marden about her book 'Forbidden Knowledge: A Personal Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation'.Kathleen Marden's amazing life as the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, the first scientifically investigated case of alien abduction, sent her on a lifelong search for answers. Her extensive investigation of their events developed into a career as a respected UFO investigator, researcher, author, and leader in her field. She has devoted years to investigation, research, and experimentation always following the evidence wherever it led and sharing her findings with her readers.In 1991, she joined the Mutual UFO Network, the world's largest civilian investigative organization. Her active involvement led to twenty years of volunteerism at a national level. As the Founder of MUFON's Experiencer Resource Team, she and her fellow investigators enabled thousands of UFO abductees and experiencers of contact with nonhumans to confidentially speak of their often troubling experiences with compassionate, knowledgeable, nonjudgmental listeners.Her collaboration on three major studies of nearly five thousand people who believe they have experienced nonhuman contact generated new insight into the commonalities shared by these participants in a mystifying alternate reality.When she discovered information that transcended the limits of conservative Ufology the information she possessed was no longer acceptable to self-appointed gatekeepers who sought to control the narrative. However, the investigation of unexplained phenomena is legitimate in a free and open society, and you the reader deserve access to the truth. This is her story.BioKathleen Marden is a researcher, author, on camera expert, conference presenter, experiencer advocate, hypnosis practitioner and support group facilitator. She is known as one of the leading UFO contact researchers of our time. Since 1990, she has 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 and 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. She is the 2013 recipient of MUFON's "Researcher of the Year" award and the 2021 recipient of the International UFO Congress "Lifetime Achievement Award".She earned a B.A. degree in social work and was employed as an educator and education services coordinator while attending graduate school. She is a certified practitioner of regression hypnosis and the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique. She has worked on three social research studies, on experiencers of ET contact, two with Ph.D. social scientists. Additionally, she offers the Awakening Souls support group for experiencers who feel an intense calling to be part of the answer and to assist others who are beginning to awaken to their relationship with Non-human intelligence.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. She spent fifteen years in painstaking investigation of the Hill abduction case and continues to seek the scientific analysis of the compelling evidence.Her bestseller with nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman (1934-2019) is “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience”. She and Stanton worked together for nearly 14 years and collaborated on 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 intergenerational cases of abduction/contact. Her fifth book “Extra Terrestrial Contact: What to Do When You’ve Been Abducted” is a comprehensive guide to...