Published in 1977, Jacques Vallee’s classic “The Invisible College” in my opinion is a must read for UFO investigators and experiencers who are willing to think outside of the box. In “The Invisible College” Dr Vallee states,
“In this book I will not confine myself to the examination of the physical reality but will step…to the experiential and even to the mythical.”
Dr. Vallee describes the case of “Doctor X” that demonstrates how a UFO encounter can be associated with amazing physical cures as well as a change in experiencers’ belief systems.
A medical doctor in the south of France holding an “important official position” had a sighting. According to Dr. Vallee, the event was thoroughly investigated by a team that included an astrophysicist, a psychiatrist, and a physiologist.
Three days before the sighting the physician injured his leg while chopping wood. A large hematoma had formed that was still hurting on the night that the incident occurred. At 4AM the doctor awoke during a storm and found his 14-month-old child gesturing towards the window. The physician assumed that the flashes of light were merely lightning. He gave the child some water to drink and looked out the window. There he saw two disk-shaped UFOs. Both had horizontal antennae. The flashes came about one per second and were associated with an increase in the brightness of the two glowing saucers. This was followed by a blast of light between them. The floating duo reportedly approached the doctor’s house silently. The antenna of each object then touched the other and the two craft merged into one object. A blast of light emanated from the UFO that struck the doctor’s face. A loud “bang” was heard and then the object dematerialized.
The physician woke his wife up and it was she that noted that the wound on his leg had completely healed. Over the next few days he noted that other injuries had disappeared as well. During the Algerian War he sustained a wound that left him weak on the right side. He was unable to stand on the right leg alone. When working for any length of time the right side of his body quickly fatigued. After his encounter as documented by medical examination, these injuries disappeared.
Six days after the event, famed French investigator Aime Michel evaluated the doctor and found him complaining of generalized weakness with abdominal cramps. In addition, a strange triangular shaped area of red pigmentation appeared around his navel. Michel thought this might be psychosomatic. This notion was abandoned when the doctor’s infant child developed the same red triangle around his navel.
In a two-year follow up period, Aime Michel found that there were no return of the symptoms related to either the war injuries or the wood chopping incident. The triangular rash came and went on both father and son. In addition a dramatic change of beliefs took place in the doctor and his wife. This was documented by the testimony of friends and family. Dr. Vallee stated,
“They seem to have acquired an almost mystical acceptance of the events of life and death, which is puzzling to those who had known them previously,” p 24.
For the doctor and his family, events of high strangeness also recurred periodically. Vallee labeled them as “paranormal.” They included telepathy, one incident of levitation that the doctor reportedly could not control, as well as electromagnetic effects involving the malfunctioning of clocks and electrical circuits. These occurrences defied prosaic explanations.
“The Invisible College” has been republished in 2023 and is currently available on the internet as an e-book as well.
Discussion: During his lifelong UFO investigations Dr. Jacques Vallee has focused not only on the physical characteristics of flying saucer described in reports, but also has spent countless hours interviewing contact experiencers about their interactions with the intelligences responsible for UFOs. In this report from “The Invisible College” he describes a case that involved a Close Encounter with an associated healing of an acute and a chronic medical condition, (a leg hematoma and weakness on the right side respectively).
In the FREE Experiencer Survey several thousand contact experiencers answered hundreds of questions concerning their encounters with UAP associated non-human intelligences. Of the more than 1500 experiencers who answered questions about UAP healings, half indicated that they, or someone in their family, had experienced such a healing.
In Jacques Vallee’s case concerning “Doctor X”, physician and his wife had a profound change in their beliefs described as “mystical.” Mystical experiences lead to the belief that one can obtain knowledge about the ultimate nature of reality by achieving union with a divine source. Thus information is typically not acquired through the five senses, but rather via a direct connection with the Deity or beings from non-material/spiritual realms. This connection is thought to be facilitated through certain activities like meditation, fasting, chanting and other spiritual practices.
The FREE Experiencer Survey documented profound changes in the worldviews of those who participated in the study. As the result of their encounters many described their becoming more spiritual, but less involved in organized religion. They also reported becoming more concerned about the fate of our planet and less about the acquisition of wealth and high social status.
The findings of the FREE Experiencer Survey have been reported in the 2018 book “Beyond UFOs” edited and published by Rey Hernandez. In Chapter Six, my co-author Preston Dennett and I describe in detail 10 cases of UAP healings.
Additional resources on these topics:
This transformation of human consciousness associated with UFO contact in the opinion of many contact activists is a deliberate aim of non-human intelligences interacting with humanity. My friend Enrique Villanueva, a longtime activist in the Rahma network, has stated that contact is about more than physical or mental encounters with “ET” beings. In a brief yet poignant interview link below he discusses,
“ET Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness.”
Linked below is an excellent video report on the case of “Doctor X.” It is produced by the “Think Anomalous” production team that provide short but detailed video documentaries on a wide range of anomalous phenomena.
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs” describes a UAP healing of a young physician suffering from hemorrhagic shock.
J. Burkes MD 2024
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