What do Protestants think about the Marian apparitions at Zeitoun, Egypt?

Summary from [Wikipedia - Our Lady of Zeitoun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Zeitoun) : > Our Lady of Zeitoun, also known simply as El-Zeitoun, Zeitun or rarely Our Lady of Light, was a mass Marian apparition that was reported to have occurred in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, during a period of about 3 years beginning on 2 April 1968. Summary from [The Marian Apparitions: An Evidential Inquiry](https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Travis-Dumsday-ebook/dp/B0DFDRGRZT) by Travis Dumsday: > Religious experiences are usually private though occasionally they are intersubjective, involving multiple individuals at the same time. These group experiences carry extra evidential weight. But what of mass religious experiences, in which hundreds or even thousands of people apparently experience the same supernatural occurrence at the same time? Such events are rare historically, but of great interest in evidential terms, since they are more difficult to explain scientifically. **The largest mass religious experiences in recorded history (outside Scripture) occurred over the course of several years in Zeitoun, Egypt. Beginning in 1968, the Virgin Mary began to appear above a Coptic Orthodox Church. These apparitions soon attracted massive crowds and sparked official inquiries by both the Egyptian government and the Coptic hierarchy**. This book explores the history of these fascinating events and critically examines every scientific explanation thus far put forward in an attempt to account for them in naturalistic terms. The author argues that, so far, these attempts have failed, and thus the Marian apparitions at Zeitoun constitute powerful evidence for the reality of the supernatural. The YouTube channel *Capturing Christianity* recently released the video *[The Best Evidence for Christianity… Isn’t in the Bible?!](https://youtu.be/n5wxSrxFzz0?t=164)* : > First, what do we have for Zeitoun? > > Well, we have: > > - **Thousands of firsthand eyewitnesses**, including Muslims, skeptics, journalists, and even government officials. > - **Photographs**—something we don't have for the resurrection. > - **Immediate written reports**, with no decades-long gap. > - **Public and repeatable events**—the apparitions occurred countless times spanning three years to massive crowds. > - **Multiple sensory experiences**—people didn’t just see it; they also smelled incense and documented miraculous healings. > - **A government investigation**—and it didn’t debunk it. In fact, the secular Egyptian government officially declared it supernatural. > > This is very serious evidence. If you're thinking, *"Wait, this > actually does sound stronger than our evidence for biblical > miracles,"* you would be right. > > Now, compare the evidence at Zeitoun for what we have for the Resurrection: > > - **Eyewitness testimony**—but from a small number of people. > - **Some hearsay accounts**—written two or so decades (or thereabouts) after the event. > - **No photographs**—the camera wasn’t even invented yet. > - **No secular confirmation**—for example, we have no formal, contemporaneous, say, Roman investigation concluding that anything mysterious or supernatural happened, like we do in Zeitoun. What do Protestants think about the Marian apparitions at Zeitoun, Egypt?