In a couple of posts earlier this year, here and here, I discussed healings that have been reported in affiliation with UFOs. In the second post, I linked a video by Preston Dennett in which he discusses what he considers the twenty best cases of UFO healings. The one he ranks as the best is the healing of Bernadete Justiniano Gomes. I've done some further research on it since my posts earlier this year. I couldn't find much about the case, but I came across enough to warrant another post.
Go here to watch a 2010 presentation on the case for the Los Angeles branch of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network). The woman allegedly healed, Bernadete Justiniano Gomes, was a housekeeper for Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, a general in the Brazilian military and a paranormal researcher. Here's a web site about Uchoa. The MUFON presentation was done by Uchoa's son and granddaughter. Roughly the first 53 minutes are by the son, and he provides an overview of Uchoa's life. You can go here to watch the more relevant part of the video, in which Uchoa's granddaughter discusses the healing under consideration. The healing was arranged ahead of time, apparently as something Uchoa asked the aliens he allegedly was in contact with to do, so it seems to be a type of vindicatory miracle.
Apparently, Gomes (her married name, I think) had an advanced form of Chagas disease. Some portions of the medical records are shown and discussed (with English translations of some parts). There are segments of an interview with Gomes that are shown, in Portuguese and with some English translation. You can watch what seems to be the entire interview here, with an English voiceover, not Gomes' own voice. If the medical records are authentic and are being represented accurately, it looks like there was a significant improvement in Gomes' health around the time when the healing is supposed to have occurred. And the healing apparently held up over time, at least to the point when Gomes was interviewed a few decades later. There's talk of how the case got a lot of media attention in Brazil, though I haven't seen much coverage in English on the internet or in the books I've checked. If the healing occurred in a way similar to what Uchoa and Gomes describe, both the change in her medical condition and the events surrounding the change seem to be paranormal. And multiple people are supposed to have witnessed the healing, including Uchoa. So, it looks like any skeptic of the healing would have to propose some kind of hoax involving at least a few people over multiple decades (e.g., because of what was said about obtaining Gomes' medical records after Uchoa's death), some kind of combination between hoaxing and mental illness, or something else of that nature. (Proposing that everybody involved was mentally ill, for example, would be too problematic, partly because their mental illnesses would be so unlikely to all line up the way they'd need to.)
There are some apparent discrepancies in the testimony. Gomes gives some dates that don't seem to agree with the medical records. But she was speaking off the top of her head a few decades later, without any notes, apparently, and that sort of inaccuracy is common among witnesses who are generally reliable. And it would be good to have one or more doctors rather than laymen examine and discuss the medical records. Still, there's some evidential value to what those laymen tell us. The claim of media coverage is significant and should be looked into. Presumably, at least most of the coverage would be in Portuguese. It seems unlikely that they'd claim there was media coverage if there wasn't any.
More work should be done on the case. What I've seen so far looks promising.
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