The Strange Case of Dr. X: UFOs and "Miracle" Healings

Though we tend to think of "miraculous" healings as the domain of religious miracle workers, a number of UFO witnesses claim to have been spontaneously healed during or after their sightings. By examining these kinds of anomalous effects on witnesses, we probably won't learn where UFOs come from, but we may explain what they are doing here. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=3375417 Donate on Paypal: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/support.html Watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BVH9wu28yEQ Website: https://ThinkAnomalous.com Full sources & transcript: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/drx-ufo.html Facebook: https://facebook.com/ThinkAnomalous Twitter: https://twitter.com/Think_Anomalous Instagram: https://instagram.com/Think.Anomalous Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau. Illustration by Colin Campbell. Research by Clark Murphy. Music by Josh Chamberland. Animation by Brendan Barr. Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland. Sources: Bidault, Bernard. OVNIs - Attention danger !. JMG Editions, 2003. Dennett, Preston E. The Healing Power of UFOs: 300 True Accounts of People Healed by Extraterrestrials. Independently published, 2019. Hopkins, Budd. Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions. New York : R. Marek Publishers, 1981. Mack, John. Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens. Scribner, 1994. Michel, Aimé. “The Strange Case of Dr ‘X.’” Flying Saucer Review special issue no. 3 (August/September 1969): 3-16. Translated from French by Gordon Creighton. Michel, Aimé. “The Strange Case of Dr. ‘X’ - Part 2.” Flying Saucer Review Vol. 17, No. 6 (November/December 1971): 3-9. Translated from French by Gordon Creighton. Krippner, Stanley and Jeanne Achterberg. "Anomalous Healing Experiences." Varieties of anomalous experience: examining the scientific evidence. October 2012. Strieber, Whitley and Jeffrey Kripal. The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. TarcherPerigee, 2016. Vallée, Jacques. “The Magonia Database: A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968).” In Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers. Casefile 921. Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Publ. Henry Regnery Co., 1969. http://ufoinfo.com/magonia/part10.shtml UFO Case Review contains sound design with elements downloaded from Freesound.org. Typewriter_2rows.wav, Uploaded by Fatson under the Attribution License. This podcast also contains a free sound effect from SoundBible, recorded by BlastwwaveFx.com.