Luukanen-Kilde was born in
Värtsilä. She had to flee with her family in infancy during the Second World War and was raised in
Helsinki. She studied medicine at the universities of
Oulu and
Turku, graduating in 1967. In March 1975, she became a provincial medical officer in
Rovaniemi, Lapland; In 1982, as Rauni-Leena Luukanen, she published
Kuolemaa ei ole (
There Is No Death). She had been interested in the paranormal since she was a teenager, but the 1985 car accident which led to her retirement was reportedly "significant in her turn to ufology". and authored books about UFOs,
alien abductions,
mind control and
conspiracy theories. Luukanen-Kilde claimed to have been "rescued" from danger by
extraterrestrials, and to have esoteric skills and knowledge as a result of her relationship with them. She said that there was a secret exchange program between humans and aliens that was being deliberately suppressed by "powerful Western governments", particularly the United States. Her article on cybernetic implants as a means of control is widely circulated. She appears in the 1999 film
Revelations: The End Times, Volume 2. Luukanen-Kilde married a Norwegian diplomat in 1987 After her husband's death in 1996, Luukanen-Kilde died in February 2015 in
Vaasa after a long illness, having returned to Finland shortly before. ==Selected publications==