UFO's and Alien Abductions Betty and Barney Hill's Niece : Kathleen Marden was trained as a social scientist 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 UNH. She is also a certified hypnotherapist. 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 is the director of field investigator training (emeritus) for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), the largest international UFO organization. In 2003, MUFON publicly recognized Kathy for her outstanding contribution of advancing the scientific study of the UFO phenomenon and demonstrating positive leadership. For the past twenty years she has engaged in UFO research and investigation and written numerous articles pertaining to UFO abduction phenomena. Kathy was a primary witness to the evidence of her aunt and uncle, Betty and Barney Hills' 1961 UFO encounter and the aftermath. After Betty's death in 2004, Kathy 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. The UFO collection contains all of all the correspondence, articles, and other material from Betty's extensive files, including new material, Betty's dress, and the forensic paintings of her captors by artist, David Baker. 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 dream account of alien abduction. Her book Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience, (coauthored with nuclear physicist/scientific ufologist Stanton Friedman) was published in 2007. Kathy has appeared on numerous television and radio programs in the US, Canada and Europe. Additionally, she has lectured throughout the United States. Kathy divides her time between Clermont, Florida, and Newburyport, Massachusetts http://www.kathleen-marden.com