Kimberly S. Engels
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Molloy University and Research Director of the John Mack Institute. Her work applies existentialism, ethics, and phenomenology to the lived conscious experience of people reporting UAP/NHI contact, and she is the author of Contact and Multidimensional Subjectivity: Towards a Phenomenology of Disclosure (College Publications, 2026).
At the July 2026 “Breaking the Taboo” symposium (co-organizer), Engels argues that anthropocentric ethical frameworks are insufficient to evaluate moral responsibility in encounters where one party (the UAP intelligence) may be “situated differently in time” and hold knowledge unavailable to humans — a complement to michael-bohlander’s use-of-force argument. She also supplies the phenomenological framework guiding karin-austin’s experiencer-archive analysis.
Vault appearances
- src-breaking-the-taboo-uap-contact-symposium-2026-05 — co-organizer; Session 3 talk on the limitations of anthropocentric ethics.