Mary Rodwell is the Founder and Principal of the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network (ACERN) an the Co-founder & Director of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research Into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE). A midwife, counselor, hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, and former nurse, she is also an international speaker, researcher, and author of two books. She has produced two award winning documentaries and a series of meditation CDs.

As one of Australia’s leading researchers of encounters with non-human intelligences, she's lectured in North America, Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia. Mary is also featured in several documentaries, including a personal one with her son, "My Mum Talks to Aliens," produced in Australia by SBS. Her research explores the encounter phenomenon from a multidimensional perspective and suggests that Star ‘Visitors’ have orchestrated many complex multidimensional programs to ‘upgrade’ and activate the consciousness of Homo sapiens.