Mary Rodwell

Mary Rodwell is a British-Australian researcher, counsellor and author regarded as one of Australia’s leading figures in the study of the UFO “contact” and experiencer phenomenon.

A former nurse, midwife and health educator, she founded the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN) in 1997 to provide counselling, hypnotherapy and support to people reporting anomalous and contact experiences.

She is the author of Awakening: How Extraterrestrial Contact Can Transform Your Life (2002) and The New Human (2016), and is a co-founder of the FREE research foundation (Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters).

(No reliably verifiable birth year is available, so none is asserted here.) Rodwell occupies the researcher-and-counsellor position within the galactic-contact lineage: rather than presenting herself primarily as a channel, she documents and supports thousands of self-reported experiencers and advances the thesis of the “new human”—that recent generations of “star children” or starseeds display heightened awareness and, in her framing, are part of a consciousness shift assisted by extraterrestrial encounter.

Her work knits together the experiencer-support, starseed and disclosure currents and has been influential in legitimising “contact” as a supportable experience within that subculture. This entry describes her research and claims neutrally; the contact and “genetic upgrade” theses are her interpretations and remain unverified and contested.