Kathleen Marden, coauthor of CAPTURED! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO

Experience is presenting the true story of her Aunt Betty Hill’s and Uncle Barney Hill’s 1961 UFO encounter and its fascinating aftermath, including a slide show of their encounter route, the evidence, and excerpts from their hypnosis sessions with Dr. Benjamin Simon.

Kathy was trained as a social worker and educator and holds a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire. She participated in graduate studies in education at The University of Cincinnati and U.N.H. 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 was thirteen on September 20, 1961, when 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, Kathy has intimate knowledge of the Hill’s biographical histories, personalities, and the never before published historical data pertaining to their sensational story.

Because Kathy was so close to Betty Hill, especially over the last two decades of her life, she was able to review her extensive UFO files and have many long discussions with Betty to clear up puzzling questions pertaining to her UFO encounter. She recorded hours of taped interviews with Betty and the two made several research trips through New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Additionally, in 1996, Betty released to Kathy the audio tapes of the hypnosis sessions she and Barney participated in with renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Benjamin Simon. With Betty’s approval, she transcribed the tapes and conducted a comparative analysis of the Hills’ individual testimony versus Betty’s infamous dream material. This new information, along with the Hills’ historical records and scientific reports, became the foundation for her new book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, coauthored with Stanton T. Friedman.

For ten years Kathy served on the MUFON Board of Directors as the Director of Field Investigator Training. In 2003, MUFON publicly recognized Kathy for her outstanding contribution of advancing the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon and demonstrating positive leadership. She has written articles for The MUFON Journal and the book Best UFO Cases. Additionally, she has appeared on news programs, dozens of radio shows, The History Channel and The Discovery Channel.

Kathy resides in New Hampshire with her husband, Charles Marden. She can be contacted at Kmarden@aol.com . To purchase an autographed copy of Captured, mail $18.99 (check or money order) to P.O. Box 93, East Kingston, NH 03827.