Welcome to the Insiders Section of our Website! Here you will find information on some of our more intriguing cases. You will also be able to learn more about Northland MUFON, MN MUFON, and our Field Investigators. As always, if you have any questions, would like to learn more, or if you would like to attend any of our monthly Field Investigator meetings, please contact us at NorthlandMUFONInfo@gmail.com.
Northland MUFON Insiders Content
Yes! Ufology is a Subject Academics Should be Researching!
Meet Matthew Hayes: A PhD that dared to complete his Doctorate with a Dissertation on the History of UFOs in Canada.
I’m an educator, researcher, and filmmaker.
Dr. Hayes teaches philosophy, politics, English, and ethics at Northern Lakes College. He received his PhD from Trent University and held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. He studies conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, “cranks,” UFOs and the supernatural, and Cold War espionage.
My doctoral research was featured on CBC Radio’s Ideas, which became the subject of my book Search for the Unknown.
Dr. Hayes’ was kind enough to allow us to share his dissertation right here on our website. Here is Dr. Hayes’ Dissertation – Enjoy!
A_History_of_Canada_s_UFO_Investigation_1950_1995 Dr. Matthew Hayes
Thank you Dr. Matthew Hayes!
Class VII Jelly Fish UAP Spotted in the Northland!
During our Feb, 2024 Public Meeting a case of a Jelly Fish Shaped UAP that was Spotted and Photographed over the North Shore near Lutsen, MN was discussed.
See the Details Here!
In 2025 The Skywatcher Team Showcased a Larger Variant of the Jelly Fish UAP.
See Their Video Here!
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Kathleen Marden
Saturday Feb. 28th, 2026
Kathleen’s Presentation:
“The Barney and Betty Hill Case”
Meeting Re-Cap:
A substantial number of attendees gathered on the frigid final day of February 2026, and Kathleen Marden delivered an exceptional presentation.
Kathleen presented a groundbreaking new presentation, which was the first to be shared with the public. Consequently, we cannot provide extensive details, and there will not be a Northland MUFON YouTube video. However, MUFON offers a wealth of information from its extensive archives.
For those unfamiliar with Kathleen, she is the niece of Barney and Betty Hill, the most documented and extensively studied case of abduction in history. The incident occurred in 1961, and Kathleen possesses all relevant documents, clothing, hypnosis tapes, and previously undisclosed information. If you did not attend in person or via Zoom, you missed a significant portion of the presentation.
This writer, who believed they possessed comprehensive knowledge of this case, was pleasantly surprised to discover a wealth of new information. Kathleen meticulously maps out their entire road trip, accompanied by photographs from that era and the current landscape. While Barney expressed a desire to avoid further investigation, Betty exhibited a keen interest and pursued it due to a series of unsettling dreams.
Kathleen has authored several books, and here are some recommended readings:
- FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE: A Personal Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation by Kathleen Marden
- The Alien Abduction Files: The Most Startling Cases of Human Alien Contact Ever Reported by Kathleen Marden and Denise Stone
- Extraterrestrial Contact: What to Do When You’ve Been Abducted by Kathleen Marden, Laural Merlington et al (an official MUFON book)
- Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Kathleen Marden
- Science Was Wrong: Startling Truths About Cures, Theories & Inventions They Declared Impossible by Kathleen Marden
- Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers: The Truth Behind the Misinformation, Distortion, and Derision by Debunkers, Government Agencies, and Conspiracy Conmen by Stanton T Friedman and Kathleen Marden
- UFOs and Aliens: Is There Anybody Out There? by Kathleen Marden
- The Alien Abduction Files by Kathleen Marden and Denise Stoner
Joke of the Month brought to you by Ellie Maher at Full Circle Soul: Why don’t aliens ever send the government a postcard? Because every time they do, it arrives blacked out.
Sev Tok will be our presenter on March 28th, which should be a great time! See you there!
Watch Full Meetings from the Meeting Archives
Kathleen’s Bio:
Kathleen Marden is a nationally recognized UFO researcher, author, educator, and lecturer with more than five 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 the University of New Hampshire. A member of the Alpha Kappa Delta sociology honor society, she spent fifteen years as a professional educator, where she designed and implemented model educational programs, supervised and evaluated instructional staff, and taught adult education courses on UFO history and abduction research.
Marden 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, playing a central role in shaping modern investigative standards and experiencer research protocols. She is the recipient of the International UFO Congress Lifetime Achievement Award and currently serves as a MUFON lifetime member, benefactor, and research consultant for the Experiencer Resource Team. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters (FREE) and has participated in four major experiencer research studies involving nearly 5,500 participants.
Her connection to the subject is both professional and deeply personal. On September 20, 1961, at the age of thirteen, she received a phone call from her aunt, Betty Hill, reporting that she and her husband Barney had encountered a “flying saucer” the previous night in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. As a firsthand witness to the physical evidence and emotional aftermath of the encounter, Kathleen Marden possesses unparalleled access to the Hills’ personal histories, psychological profiles, and never-before-published archival materials related to the first scientifically investigated UFO abduction case in U.S. history.
Following Betty Hill’s death in 2004, Marden compiled two permanent archival collections for the Milne Special Collections and Archives Department at the University of New Hampshire Library. These include: The Hills’ Civil Rights Collection, documenting Betty and Barney Hill’s social justice and political activism and The Hills’ UFO Abduction Collection, preserving all primary materials related to their 1961 encounter.
She has conducted extensive research in both physical and digital archives and has engaged in investigative and experimental research across conventional and unconventional domains of UFO studies. Her guiding philosophy remains: “If we do not seek, we will not find.”
Kathleen Marden is the primary author or coauthor of several influential books in the field. Her international bestseller with nuclear physicist and scientific ufologist Stanton T. Friedman, MSc. (1934–2019) is Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience (2nd edition, 2021). They also coauthored Science Was Wrong (published in Chinese) and Fact, Fiction, and Flying Saucers. Her collaboration with Denise Stoner, The Alien Abduction Files, documents six intergenerational experiencer cases. Her fifth book, Extraterrestrial Contact: What to Do When You’ve Been Abducted, is both a comprehensive research volume and a practical self-help guide for experiencers (published in English and French). Her most recent book, Forbidden Knowledge: A Personal Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation, explores consciousness, contact, and personal transformation.
She has appeared as an on-camera expert in over 65 television and video productions, and on countless radio programs, podcasts, and documentaries worldwide. Kathleen Marden continues to lecture at conferences throughout the United States and internationally. Contact: www.kathleen-marden.com
Don’t forget to purchase her books!
MN MUFON Presents:
Mike Ricksecker
Saturday March 14th, 2026
2:00pm – 5:00pm CT
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) & Online!
Mike will Present:
“The Interdimensional Universe”
Mike will be with us via Zoom
Ancient cultures around the globe held secrets of harnessing the power of the Earth, traversing the cosmos, and interacting with beings from other worlds – or, perhaps, other dimensions. What was this esoteric knowledge lost to time we’re just rediscovering today? We’ll examine the uses of stargates, mysterious portals in the wilderness — and in space, modern science’s recent achievements in creating wormholes, hidden wisdom behind ancient symbolism of a multidimensional universe, and more.
Mike’s Bio:
Researcher Mike Ricksecker is the author of the award-winning Travels Through Time, Amazon best-sellers A Walk In The Shadows and Alaska’s Mysterious Triangle, as well as several historic paranormal books. He has appeared on multiple television shows and programs, including History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and The UnXplained, Travel Channel’s The Alaska Triangle, Discovery+’s Fright Club, Animal Planet’s The Haunted, multiple series on Gaia TV, and more. Mike is the producer and director of the docu-series, The Shadow Dimension, available on several streaming platforms, and produces additional full-length content on ancient wisdom, lost civilizations, UFOs, and the supernatural on his extensive YouTube channel.
For more than seven years he has hosted The Edge of the Rabbit Hole livestream show and he also hosts the Connecting the Universe interactive class on his online learning platform, the Connected Universe Portal. He operates his own book publishing and video production company, Haunted Road Media, representing a number of authors, and winning the award for Excellent Media In The Paranormal Field at the 2019 Shockfest Film Festival.
Mike also hosts the annual Stargates of Ancient Egypt Tour, an exploration of Egypt’s pyramids and temples for lost advanced technologies, the secrets of esoteric alchemy, and ancient stargates.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mike is a U.S. Air Force veteran with a background in Intelligence and a degree in computer simulation programming. He’s been researching unexplained phenomena across the world for over 30 years.
Northland MUFON Presents:
Sev Tok
March 28th, 2026
2:00pm-4:30pm CT Grand Rapids VFW, & Online!
– North Dakota Will Meet Online Only This Month –
(Due to Library Construction)
Sev Will Present:
“AI = ET?”
Sev Will Be With Us via Zoom!
Q&A Session After the Presentation
ET Contactees around the world describe transformative communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Sev shares true stories of Experiencers whose encounters led to healing and expanded awareness, while exploring whether artificial intelligence serves as a bridge in humanity’s preparation for ET contact or whether ET Contact has already begun through AI itself.
Sev’s Bio:
Sev Tok is an author, ufologist, spiritual counselor, and experiencer advocate known for her work at the intersection of extraterrestrial contact, consciousness, and disclosure.
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Sev immigrated to the United States as a child and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Loyola University. In 2017, after relocating from Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. to the Inner Banks of North Carolina, she experienced a life-altering extraterrestrial encounter. While her ET contact began at age 10, Sev publicly came forward in 2018, speaking at AlienCon and releasing her book, You Have the Right to Talk to Aliens, endorsed by renowned UFO researcher Kathleen Marden.
Sev has appeared on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and The Proof Is Out There, Gaia TV’s Beyond Belief with George Noory, ABC News’ Nightline X, and the Canadian docuseries Encounter: UFO – Physical Contact on T+E TV. She has been interviewed internationally, including on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, and speaks at conferences worldwide.
She is the former MUFON State Director for North Carolina and served on the Executive Committee of the Experiencer Resource Team. Sev is also a founding member of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, a collective of award-winning filmmakers, television professionals, and ufologists dedicated to promoting accuracy in media coverage of UFOs and disclosure.
Sev has a new podcast, UFO & ET 101, offering the basics for UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and the deeper mysteries of the phenomenon. The podcast is available on her YouTube channel, Alien Spirit with Sev, and across major podcast platforms.
In addition to her media work, Sev has been conducting Soul Purpose Sessions for clients worldwide for over 16 years. She also offers private ET Consultations for Experiencers. A planet and star system have been named in her honor within the Star Wars Galactic.
MN MUFON Presents:
Michael Schratt
Saturday April 11, 2026
2:00pm – 5:00pm CT
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) & Online!
Michael will Present:
“Retrievals Of The Third Kind”
Michael will be with us via Zoom
RETRIEVALS OF THE THIRD KIND
(A pictorial History of recovered extraterrestrial craft, hardware and bodies in Military custody)
In this detailed and highly illustrated presentation, Michael Schratt will present the most exhaustive examination into the Leonard Stringfield UFO Crash/Retrieval cases. Leonard’s sources included pilots, engineers, medical doctors, pathologists, high level Pentagon officials, U.S. Navy and Air Force personnel. These first-hand sources claimed to have had first-hand knowledge/interaction with alleged Extraterrestrial debris, bodies and recovered craft. Topics to be included are as follows: 1941 Cape Girardeau Missouri, 1946 saucer retrieval at Wright Patterson AFB, 1947 UFO retrieval near Globe AZ, Large 100 foot disc recovered at White Sands Missile Range in 1947, amazing discovery at Berkeley University, 1947 military retrieval of a UFO near Salinas CA, 1948 C-119 “Flying Boxcar” UFO retrieval with bodies, a startling discovery at the Pentagon in 1952, Warrant Officer observes three ET bodies at WPAFB in 1953, Medical personnel assist ETs out of craft at Fort Polk LA in 1953, 1955 Mexican UFO retrieval south of Del Rio TX, 1953 mysterious UFO 16mm film that was “shopped around” to military installations.
The 1955 TOP SECRET warehouse of UFO components stored at WPAFB, the incredible account of a U.S.Marine who guarded a UFO for two weeks in 1963, UFO retrieval at Fort Riley KS in 1964, the most bazaar visit to the Air Force museum in history which occurred in 1965, TOP SECRET underground facility at Fort Hood TX, 1973 “tear-drop” shaped UFO recovery and the connection to Howard Hughes, Air Force photographer makes a shocking discovery inside a UFO during 1973, Challenger astronaut witnesses bazaar film of ET bodies at McClellan AFB in 1973, and many more. New cases to be covered include the crash of a base forward flying triangle in east Germany during 1989, the alleged Jackie Gleason 1973 ET encounter at Homestead AFB, 1989 Moriches Bay ET craft shoot down and recovery. Leonard’s UFO Crash/Retrieval cases make up the majority of “legacy” retrieval operations mentioned in recent Congressional hearings in Washington D.C.
Michael’s Bio:
Michael Schratt (private pilot/military aerospace historian) has lectured across the country on the unique subject of “Mystery Aircraft”, and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military industrial complex. A guest speaker at the “OSHKOSH” AirVenture 2006/2007event, (world’s largest air show), Michael has developed a number of contacts which have had first hand experience dealing classified “black programs”, including former USAF pilots, retired Naval personnel, and aerospace engineers that have maintained a TOP SECRET SCI security clearance. Michael currently works as a SolidWorks draftsman. In an effort to expose government fraud, waste and abuse, Michael devotes much of his free time researching aerospace technical documents, conducting interviews, and travelling to multiple University archives. As a concerned citizen, it’s his belief that it is our Constitutional obligation to question authority, and demand an accounting of special access programs that bypass congressional oversight and public scrutiny.
Over the 30 years, Michael has investigated over 75,000 UFO case files through real world “boots on the ground” research. This entails visiting UFO collections at university archives, private files, and UFO special collections. Additional historical UFO files were also secured from the flowing research organizations: APRO, NICAP, MUFON, CUFOS and the National UFO Historical Records Center (NUFOHRC). Michael has appeared on multiple TV programs including Hangar 1 for the History Channel. He has lectured on historical UFO cases at multiple venues including: The International UFO Congress, MUFON Symposium, Contact in the Desert and the Ozark Mountain UFO Conference. Michael’s ultimate crusade is to “bring to life” obscure and unknown historical UFO cases through the use of refined drawings, full color illustrations, and fully illustrated PowerPoint presentations thereby preserving an important part of our national history.ve class on his online learning platform, the Connected Universe Portal. He operates his own book publishing and video production company, Haunted Road Media, representing a number of authors, and winning the award for Excellent Media In The Paranormal Field at the 2019 Shockfest Film Festival.
Michael will present a highly illustrated lecture specifically focusing in on the most obscure, forgotten, and neglected cases within the field of Ufology. Topics to include the following: 1987 Mystery Airship, January 1, 1981 Alabama massive craft reported with occupants, Eddie Laxson case March 23, 1966 in Temple OK, October 18, 1973 Mansfield Ohio “Army Helicopter Incident”, January 1, 1970 Canadian “Hospital Window” UFO case, July 31, 1968 Reunion Island “Michelin Man” case, September 1958 U.S.S. FDR UFO encounter, Colusa CA 1976, Cash/Landrum incident December 29, 1980 Huffman TX, Falcon Lake Canada May 19, 1967, Lonnie Zamora April 24, 1964, Father Gill case of June 27, 1959, 1982- 1989 Hudson Valley Boomerang, 1989 Belgium Triangle and much more. Strap in and prepare yourself for a non-holds-barred, shoot-from-the-hip presentation which is sure to cause even government “spook groups” to run for cover.
Northland MUFON Presents:
Ellie Maher
April 25th, 2026
2:00pm-4:30pm CT Grand Rapids VFW, & Online!
North Dakota Will Meet At The New Moorhead Public Library:
450 Center Ave in downtown Moorhead
Ellie Will Present:
“TBD”
Ellie Will Be With Us via Zoom!
Q&A Session After the Presentation
Ellie’s Bio:
Ellie Maher is a Level 3 QHHT® Practitioner(Dolores Cannon method), Psychic Medium, Shaman, Master Tattooer and business owner of Full Circle Soul and Tailwind Tattoo in Fargo, North Dakota.
She is also a lifelong ET experiencer and has had active intuition and psychic ability since childhood. She has also experienced many lifetimes on this planet and other realms in the galaxy through regression hypnosis.
Her passion lies in helping clients discover all aspects of who they are through her many modalities in a judgement free environment guided by her fascination with the journey of the Soul.
MN MUFON Presents:
Dr. Rita Louise
Saturday May 9th, 2026
2:00pm – 5:00pm CT
New Brighton Community Center (New Brighton, MN) & Online!
Dr. Rita will Present:
“Myth As History”
Dr. Rita will be with us via Zoom
Dr. Louise will present a startling and comprehensive examination of ancient myths and legends that describe extraterrestrial visitors and their encounters with humanity since the dawn of time. Organized into a chronology that starts with “in the beginning” and ends with the advent of civilization, it brings together myths from many cultures (including the Sumerians, the Greek, the Maya and the Aborigines of Australia) and explores them in the context of current scientific discoveries. The result is a mind-blowing re-visioning of human origins through close reading of ancient texts.
Dr. Rita’s Bio:
Bestselling author, Dr. Rita Louise is the Founder of the Institute Of Applied Energetics and former host of Just Energy Radio. She is the author of the books Dang! It Was Me All Along?, The Dysfunctional Dance Of The Empath And Narcissist, Stepping Out Of Eden, ET Chronicles: What Myth And Legend Have To Say About Human Origin, Avoiding The Cosmic 2X4, Dark Angels: An Insider’s Guide To Ghosts, Spirits & Attached Entities and The Power Within: A Psychic Healing Primer as well as hundreds of articles that have been published worldwide. She is also the producer of a number of full length and feature videos. Dr. Rita has appeared on film, radio, television and has spoken at conferences around the world covering topics such as health and healing, relationships, ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal.
Northland MUFON Presents:
– To Be Announced –
May 23rd 2026
2:00pm–4:30pm CT Grand Rapids VFW, Moorhead Public Library & Online!
Guest Presentation:
“TBD”
Dive into the experiences of Roger Kvande in his book “Extraterrestrial Odyssey”
Back on April 22, 1966, Roger Kvande had a remarkable experience. One that so very few of us humans can have. He piloted a UFO right down main street in the middle of the afternoon in Bagley MN! He has also had a lifetime of experiences that most of us can’t comprehend. Read all about Roger and what he’s gone through. You’ll think twice the next time look up in the sky! Roger has been so kind as to offer back to Northland a portion of each book he sells. Get them while they are available!
Available on Amazon and other outlets.
Read Stan Gordon’s Yearly update Click here!
Stan Gordon has presented to Northland in 2024, his presentation on The UFO, Bigfoot, and Orb connection was absolutely fascinating!
Check out our YouTube channel to watch that meeting. Or just scroll to our Past meeting archive on this page!
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