In 1959, the procedure came to the attention of the U.S. public after the publication of "Into the Strange Unknown" by Ron Ormond and Ormond McGill. The authors called the practice "fourth dimensional surgery," and wrote " still don’t know what to think; but we have motion pictures to show it wasn’t the work of any normal magician, and could very well be just what the Filipinos said it was — a miracle of God performed by a fourth dimensional surgeon."