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Source: Phenomena Magazine

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Monday, October 17, 2005


Peter Robbins at the Third Annual Crash and Retrieval Symposium
Wilhelm Reich, Orgone Energy, and UFOs

Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Energy, and UFOs

By: Peter Robbins
Author and UFO Investigator

UFO investigator Peter Robbins gives Phenomena a sneak preview
of the Proceedings of the Third Annual Crash and Retrieval
Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 4-6, 2005, where Peter
will be delivering an abbreviated version of this article.

Wilhelm Reich's many books all begin with this particular
quotation: "Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our
Life. They should also govern it." This article is dedicated to
living that idea.

It is fair to say that the past century saw more scientific
advances than any preceding it. But perhaps its most important
single, unified body of scientific knowledge remains its most
controversial. The common functioning principle unifying this
science, which its pioneering founder, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, named
orgonomy, is the study of how energy functions in the living and
the non-living realms. Orgonomy offers us ground-breaking
applications in fields as diverse as biology, psychology,
meteorology, cancer research, sociology, human sexuality, child
rearing, political science and ufology, among other areas of
study. But orgonomy was not well received into the times it was
born. Some of its key findings challenged the basic precepts and
physical laws our existing scientific order is built upon, while
it's bioenergetically based critique of mystical and mechanical
thinking would have made it anathema to the majority of people
in Western culture. So it should not surprise anyone to learn
that orgonomy has been ignored, distorted, attacked and
confounded since it was first codified, by both the scientific
mainstream and by establishment thinking.

The perceived threat it represented was so pronounced during the
Eisenhower Administration, that more than eight tons of Reich's
hardcover books, monographs and other original literature were
consigned to government incinerators because bureaucrats at the
Federal Drug Administration had targeted him as a medical fraud.
This, to the best of our knowledge, without ever having
attempted to replicate any of his published experiments - the
prevailing thinking being, why bother, he was a "quack". During
his lifetime Dr. Wilhelm Reich was the target of attacks from
both the right and the left, but his work and findings were
especially reviled by uncomprehending liberals, communists and
active Soviet agents who more than understood the danger his
work represented to their cause, especially as articulated in
such books as The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Reich's blasts at
Soviet-style communism have often been dismissed as the paranoid
delusions of a great mind finally unhinged, but we can confirm
that such observations were hyper accurate, and some even
prophetic.

But it was Reich's acceptance of UFOs as a physical reality that
dealt his professional reputation its most stunning blow. When
you study the progression of his scientific work and thinking,
it becomes obvious that his investigation into the phenomenon
was merely the logical extension of a common functioning
principle that had guided him throughout his almost forty years
in professional life; that is, how energy functions in the
living and non-living realm. Nonetheless, one of ufology's most
significant chapters continues to remain one of its least known:
in the early nineteen fifties Reich developed the cloudbuster, a
simple yet effective apparatus which, when properly employed,
was capable of altering weather patterns in the surrounding
atmosphere. More, some of these weather modification operations
attracted UFOs - first over southern Maine in 1953, then above
Arizona in 1954. On December 14 of that year, this series of
cloudbusting operations culminated in what can only be
characterized as a "battle" in the skies over Tucson. Wild as
these allegations may sound, they were well-documented and
multiply witnessed.

What were the scientific dynamics which allowed such a
deceptively simple apparatus to alter entire weather fronts, and
why did this activity seem to attract the appearance of UFOs?
What were the documented specifics of his contacts with the
United States Air Force, and of his relationship with Albert
Einstein? Is there any reason to suspect that MJ-12 was aware of
or interested in Reich's work, and are there any realistic
reasons to suspect foul play in his death? This paper draws from
a number of print, archival, and human sources (all noted),
including correspondence with A.S. Neil and Albert Einstein,
Reich's final book, Contact With Space, and Wilhelm Reich and
the Cold War, by my friend and colleague Jim Martin, who is also
founder of Flatland Books. I am also indebted to Reich
biographer Dr. Myron Scharaf, and to Reich's long-time first
assistant, Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, for having taken the time and
for having had the patience to answer many of my questions.

Jerome Eden was an author, educator and ufologist, and used to
refer to UFOs as the idiot child of the media. If this
characterization is accurate, and many of us would maintain that
it is, then I respectfully submit that the truth about Dr.
Reich's UFO-related observations, findings and conclusions are
the idiot child of ufology. The intention of this article is to
help familiarize the reader with the specifics of this
remarkable episode in Post War History. To best appreciate this
account however it is important that we view it in some context.
More, that we have a basic understanding of how Reich came to
arrive at that quietly historic moment in 1953 when he first
pointed a series of long metal pipes at an unknown object high
above his rural Maine property and observed that object react as
a direct result, then upon re-aiming, react again, and again.

Background

Wilhelm Reich was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1897.
His father was a stern government bureaucrat, his artistic
mother, a piano teacher. "Willi" and his brother Robert grew up
on the family's rural estate observing nature and natural
functioning first hand on a daily basis. Both were educated by
private tutors. In 1914 the Balkans erupted in flames, and over
the next four years World War One swept the empire and the rest
of old Europe into oblivion. Reich served with distinction as an
artillery officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army until war's end.
With all of the family's property and holdings vaporized in the
empire's defeat, Reich made his way to Vienna where he enrolled
medical school, supporting himself as a tutor for the duration
of his studies.

Reich was drawn to Vienna in part because of his intense
interest in the pioneering work of Dr. Sigmund Freud. Following
his graduation from medical school he became a pupil of Freud's,
then went on to work as Freud's assistant for the next six
years. They parted ways in 1929 when Reich, after much clinical
work and observation in the early psychoanalytic tradition,
presented case findings to Freud supporting his view that
literally all human neurosis were, at the deepest levels, were
rooted in some form of sexual dysfunction, a radical notion for
Victorian Vienna and mental health professionals of the 1920s.

Freud and his followers believed that many neuroses had a sexual
basis, but certainly not all of them. Reich's radical view that
the social problems of individuals and governments were caught
up in the dynamics of sexual repression estranged him from his
analyst colleagues. Reich's departure from the Freudian ranks
created a backlash of resentment and the origin of the myth of
his mental instability. After all, why else would he have split
with the great Freud? The rumor mongering and innuendo begun by
former psychoanalytic colleagues would follow him for the
remainder of his life.

It was about 1927 when Reich first became involved with the
Austrian Communist Party, his intention being to marry the
revolutionary mission of their already-existing mental health
clinics to those of healthy sexual functioning for workers. Here
responsible sex education and contraceptives were freely
disseminated. The popularity of these "Sexpol" (sex/politics)
clinics extended into Germany and then the Soviet Union, and for
a time were allowed to thrive. Much to the disappointment and
upset of the communists however, sexually healthy workers and
party members tended to put their personal happiness and goals
above those of the party, a travesty that could not be allowed
to stand: by 1934 Reich had been expelled from the Communist
Party, their rationale for his expulsion being that, yes - the
once-brilliant young scientist was now manifesting symptoms of
insanity. The essence of his alleged mental illness is reflected
in this obviously unhinged statement, "This is what I am
fighting for: the prevention of emotional human misery by the
establishment of a normal and natural - that is, orgastically
satisfying =88 human life in the masses of people. To any group or
individual intent on controlling the lives and thoughts of
others, these are the words of a truly dangerous man. The party
never forgave him this travesty and efforts to damage his
reputation and impugn his work became commonplace from 1934 on.

Later that year he immigrated to Scandinavia. Here he continued
with his experiments and therapeutic practice with a core group
of colleagues, devoting much of his experimental work and study
to the dynamics of cancer formation. His outstanding books The
Impulsive Character, Character Analysis, People In Trouble, The
Mass Psychology of Fascism and The Cancer Biopathy all came out
of this period. Reich immigrated to the United States in 1939
and was invited to join the faculty of New York City's New
School for Social Research the following year. He settled in
Forest Hills, a then-quiet district in the Borough of Queens
where he went into private practice, wrote, and refined his
character analytic therapy, or medical orgone therapy as it
became known. Energetic functioning in people was now his
primary interest and his key efforts were directed toward
dissolving the chronic muscular contractions of his patients.
This human "armoring" served to block natural feeling and hold
neurotic behavior in place.

The Orgone Energy Accumulator

It was during this time that he discovered the specifically
biological energy which he called orgone, and a deceptively
simple therapeutic and experimental device that could
concentrate the energy and allow it to be measured in a
laboratory setting. He named it the orgone energy accumulator,
or ORAC. Thinking individuals in many cultures had long pondered
this energy. Early Hindu texts referred to it as the "Prana,"
while Victorians named it the "ether," but the former tended to
mystify the concept while the latter to mechanize it. The size
of the accumulators Reich and his associates constructed over
the years varied, from that of a small box up to a large room.
However the ORAC most people are familiar with was designed to
hold a single person and about the size of a small phone booth.
A properly constructed accumulator is made up of alternating
layers of organic and inorganic material; steel wool and
fiberboard were found to be ideal for the purpose. The non-
metallic (organic) material tends to attract and hold the
atmospheric energy, while the metal (inorganic) also attracts
the energy, but unable to absorb it, rapidly reflects the
energy. Simply put, the accumulator works on the basis of what
Reich termed the orgonomic potential. That is, unlike the
conventional energy systems we are accustomed to thinking in
terms of, i.e.: electromagnetic energy moves from the stronger
system (the source) to the weaker - orgone energy flows from the
weaker system to the stronger one.

Sitting in an accumulator has a most perceivable result for
many, including myself. The weaker energy field radiating from
the inner layer (organic) is drawn to the stronger field of the
individual inside. The flow of the field is experienced as a
warming or tingling sensation. An individual with a naturally
high energetic charge may begin to feel uncomfortable fairly
quickly, possibly experiencing some dizziness, or the sensation
of some pressure in the head. Any such feelings quickly
dissipate when you exit. A person with a low energy charge
however can remain in an accumulator much longer while feeling
little if any difference. The number of layers used in the
device's construction contributes to its relative power; the
more layers, the higher the energetic potential. Depending on
the person, effects can be felt within a few minutes. A small
accumulator can be used to germinate plant seeds at an
accelerated rate while a slightly modified version speeds the
healing time of wounds and burns. I speak here from many well-
documented user and investigative accounts, as well as from
personal experience. Therapeutically, sitting in an ORAC has an
expansive effect on the organism, especially in terms of the
blood vessels. It also increases the bioenergetic level of the
experiencer by charging the tissues and the blood. There is no
set or prescribed length of time for its use, though fifteen
minutes to half an hour once or twice a day is not an unusual
routine.

Reich persevered with experiments designed to isolate and
confirm the reality of orgone energy, but aware of the
controversy the announcement of such a discovery might create,
he continued to verify his findings without fanfare or public
acknowledgement. One of the experiments was calculated to
measure the heat inside an ORAC and compare it with the
temperature inside a control box. The experiment was named To-T
(T oh minus T). Reich and his colleagues observed that a change
in the atmosphere would alter the temperature differential, and
To-T is a reliable predictor of changes in the weather. If there
is a conventional explanation for this temperature differential,
one that can be demonstrated under laboratory conditions, I am
not aware of it.

The Einstein Affair

In late December 1940, Reich sent a carefully worded letter
about his work to Albert Einstein. The letter, written in
German, said, in part, "Several years ago I discovered a
specific biological energy which in many ways behaves
differently from anything that is known about electromagnetic
energy. The matter is too complicated and sounds too improbable
to be explained clearly in a brief letter. I can only indicate
that I have evidence that the energy, which I have called
orgone, exists not only in living organisms, but also in the
soil and in the atmosphere; it is visible and can be
concentrated and measured (emphasis his), and I am using it with
some success in research on cancer therapy." The physicist
responded by letter six days later, apparently intrigued enough
to invite Reich to demonstrate the existence of this energy in
person. The meeting was arranged through Einstein's secretary-
assistant, Helen Dukas, and set for January 13, 1941.

The two men met for more than four hours that afternoon to
discuss Reich's work and findings. He had brought several
experimental devices with him to demonstrate his findings, and
Einstein observed the glowing orgone energy for himself through
a laboratory apparatus designed for that purpose. Seemingly
unwilling to believe his own eyes, the great physicist
acknowledged the decided glow, but refused to rule out what he
described as "the subjective element." It was toward the end of
their meeting that Reich told Einstein of the measurable heat
created inside the ORAC. Conversation then shifted to the
implications of such a discovery, something not lost on either
scientist. Reich noted in his diary that Einstein's reaction had
been, "That is impossible. Should this be true, it would be a
great bomb (to physics)." An understandable reaction, given that
the heat differential which had been repeatedly observed by
Reich and his assistants during To-T violated the Second Law of
Thermodynamics - that is, that equal volumes tend to equalize in
temperature. In anticipation of the meeting Reich had noted in
his diary, "Orgone constitutes the "field" that Einstein is
searching for. Electricity, magnetism, gravitation, etc., depend
on its functions." Einstein wanted to verify this temperature
differential for himself and Reich returned to Princeton the
following week to deliver the necessary equipment. We do not
know what Einstein wrote about this meeting, or about Reich.
Author Jim Martin noted that Einstein's Archives never responded
to any of his information requests, making them the only archive
to ignore a research inquiry during the preparation of his book,
Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War.

It is fair to say that in 1941 Albert Einstein was the best-
known scientist in the world; he had been so since his Theory of
General Relativity first began to make worldwide scientific news
in 1919. Einstein arrived in America from Germany in 1933, along
with his assistant and secretary Helen Dukas. While the FBI was
aware of the physicist's left-leaning sympathies, they strongly
suspected Ms. Dukas of being an active asset of Soviet
intelligence since at least 1929. Both Ms. Dukas and Dr.
Einstein were put under fairly close observation by the FBI from
the time they entered this country. (The FBI would soon begin to
build a huge file on Reich as well). Surveillance increased
following his joining other physicists in signing a secret
letter dated December 30, 1940 advising President Roosevelt to
authorize development of an atomic bomb project, this as the
Germans might be moving ahead on just such a venture (they
were).

Einstein spent a week conducting and studying To-T, and on
February 7 wrote Reich that he had confirmed (and reconfirmed)
that the accumulator registered an average 0.3-0.4 degree
temperature (centigrade) higher than the control box, confirming
Reich's assertion, and the observations of numerous others of
the past sixty years. But then one of Einstein's assistants
offered a simple explanation. The differential was caused by
"convection" - that is, the difference between the air
temperatures under and above the table the accumulator had been
placed on: Einstein had set one box on a table and suspended
another in the air. He closed the letter, "I hope this
(explanation) will awaken your sense of skepticism, so that you
will not allow yourself to be deceived by an illusion that can
be easily explained. Please have someone pick up your
instruments, since they are of some value. They are undamaged.
With friendly greetings, A. Einstein."

Stung, Reich wrote back imploring Einstein to re-conduct the
experiment, but this time following the strict protocols devised
to eliminate such a false explanation. Reich even describes his
having repeatedly and successfully conducting To-T with both
boxes buried underground, thus eliminating any possibility of
"convection," but Einstein would hear none of it. Reich thought
it memorable that that Einstein had been so willing to accept
the first rationale that had come along, as his expressing no
interest in re-conducting the experiment under more controlled
conditions. The letter ended with a moving plea for some respect
and consideration, but no direct response was ever forthcoming.
We do not know if Einstein even saw this letter; at the time all
of his mail would have been screened by Helen Dukas, who may
have had her own reasons for not wanting Einstein to confirm
Reich's findings. Letters from Reich and his colleagues and
Einstein and his assistants continued to change hands over the
next few years, but the no resolve was ever achieved. Jim Martin
writes in Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War:

Reich's letter to Einstein in response to "convection" is the
most eloquent example of scientific dialogue I have ever read.
Indeed, Reich's description of the issues involved, the
experimental protocols to test the objection, and the design of
new experiments to shed light on the question, so inspired me
when I first read The Einstein Affair, that I set up the
experiment at home. I confirmed the basic fact, for myself, and
have sought a rational explanation that fit into established
physical science, without success. Like so many of Reich's
discoveries, this has been completely ignored, but never
experimentally refuted.

Anyone interested in learning more about this equally compelling
and frustrating footnote to the scientific history of the
Twentieth Century can secure a copy of The Einstein Affair from
the Wilhelm Reich Museum bookstore in Rangeley, Maine. The
publication, which contains the complete Reich-Einstein
correspondence, includes all the protocols necessary for
conducting the To-T experiment; it is written in a manner that
will allow any interested layperson to conduct the experiment
for themselves.

Mrs. Brady and the FDA

The Federal Drug Administration began to build its case against
Reich in 1947. The red flag which alerted them to the danger
Reich and his work posed to the American people was an
extraordinarily vicious smear article written by a far-left-
leaning journalist, Mildred Edie Brady. "The Strange Case of
Wilhelm Reich" appeared in the May 26, issue of The New
Republic; other biased and distorted articles followed. Time
Magazine's offering was entitled "The Marvelous Sex Box."
Brady's article was a masterpiece of distortion which attacked
Reich's "sex racket" while trumpeting an out-and-out lie;
namely, that he had stated the orgone accumulator was a cure-
all. Mrs. Brady was not your routine freelancer; she was, among
other things, a respected member of the drug regulation elite
and actively helped to create FDA legislation as early as 1938.
She was also a founder of Consumers Union, a communist-dominated
organization which had broken away from Consumers Research, Inc.
in 1935. Brady was also professionally associated with one of
Reich's lawyers: Arthur Garfield Hays was a Sponsor of Consumers
Union. Former Consumers Research board member, J.B. Matthews,
wrote that in the nineteen thirties Hays was known to support
the Communist Party via its "united front" organizations. Reich
was unaware of his attorney's politics, and of his association
with Mrs. Brady.

There is no question that The New Republic article was clearly
libelous, and Reich instructed Hays to initiate libel action
against Mrs. Brady and the magazine. His medical colleagues
agreed and likewise wrote to Brady in support of Reich's
decision. Incredibly, Hays talked his client out of pressing the
action, and the scientist, unfortunately, took his counselor's
advice. This proved to be a crucial misstep and other scurrilous
articles followed over the years that the FDA quietly went about
building its case. Hays never told Reich that he knew and worked
with Brady, but in an equally pronounced travesty of justice,
one of Reich's other lawyers, Peter Mills, would go on to become
the prosecuting attorney when Reich finally came to trial. But
there were greater factors at play here as well. Jim Martin's
tenacious investigative scholarship has established that The New
Republic's owner, Michael Straight, was deeply connected to the
members of the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring, and a legal
action against Brady and the publication might well have put
Straight on the stand. With Hays successfully convincing Reich
to waive any legal action, a trial-based opportunity to reveal
the degree to which Soviet intelligence had penetrated British
intelligence was lost.

"What do they want for Proof? There is no proof. There are no
authorities whatsoever. No president, no academy, court of law,
congress or senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to
decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use
in trying to prove something that is unknown to someone who is
ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power.
Only the good, old rules of learning will eventually bring about
understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence."

                           --Wilhelm Reich, Contact With Space

Reich moved from New York to an area just outside the town of
Rangeley in rural southern Maine in the early nineteen fifties.
Here he built a new home and laboratory personally designed to
integrate home and laboratory into a single, brilliantly
practical building, now the home of the Wilhelm Reich Museum.
Another laboratory was added soon after for students. This
structure was the setting for the so-called Oranur Experiment, a
chilling example of the accumulator's undeniable ability to
concentrate energy. The experiment called for the placing of a
very small amount of radium in an accumulator, the unexpected
result of which was to toxify a surprisingly large area of
southern Maine surrounding his home and laboratory, one that
took several months to dissipate.

And so we come to it. Reich's interest in UFOs dates from 1953.
Why did he become interested in them, and how did he arrive at
his conclusions concerning them? Until 1953 there is no written
or anecdotal indication that he had paid any attention to all
the publicity surrounding "flying saucers," even when, in 1952,
some visitors to his home and laboratory reported seeing shining
objects in the sky that were decidedly not stars. In November
1953, though, he read one of the best books available on the
subject at the time, Flying Saucers from Outer Space. The
author, a retired Marine Corps Major named Donald Keyhoe, was a
highly respected and decorated World War II fighter pilot and
pioneered much of the basis for modern scientific UFO studies.
Reich's writings indicate he was intrigued by Keyhoe's
observation that the maneuverability, speed and silence of the
unknowns repeatedly defied conventional laws of mechanical
flight. At the time, Reich wrote, "I had not studied anything on
the subject: I knew practically nothing about it. But my mind,
used to expecting surprises in natural research, was open to
anything that seemed real."

Keyhoe's book was followed by E. J. Ruppelt's Report on UFOs.
Ruppelt was a retired USAF Captain who had headed the Air
Force's ongoing UFO record-keeping (and public relations)
program, Project Blue Book, and his book prompted Reich to note,
"The Ruppelt Report on UFOs clearly reveals the helplessness of
mechanistic method in coming to grips with the problems posed by
the spacemen. The cosmic orgone energy which these living beings
are using in their technology is beyond the grasp of mechanistic
science since cosmic laws of functioning are not mechanical but
what I term "functional." The helplessness of mechanical
thinking appears in the tragic shortcoming of our fastest
fighter jets to make and hold contact with UFOs. Being
unavoidably outdistanced is not a flattering situation for
military pride. The conclusion seems correct: Mechanistic
methods of locomotion must be counted out in coping with the
spaceship problem."

One night as he sat on the steps outside his home in Maine,
something flashed by at great speed, its behavior not suggestive
of a comet, meteorite, or shooting star. Reich reported the
sighting to the Air Force Base at Presque Island, Maine; it was
the first of many sighting reports he would forward to the Air
Force. Following his report, he was asked to fill out an
official questionnaire. In March, 1954, Reich sent a copy of his
survey on UFOs to the Air Force. The survey was actually a
manuscript detailing his theoretical conclusions of them as
spacecraft.

The questionnaire came out of AFR 200-2, the Air Forces=82
regulations regarding the reporting of UFOs which had gone into
effect in August of that year. Reich had filled out copies of
the form following a number of sightings. His daughter, Dr. Eva
Reich, now a retired physician living in Maine, recalled that
"the interest of the Air Force in UFOs was being totally
suppressed at that time. When you reported a UFO, they came to
you with this questionnaire, and told you it was secret, and had
you fill it out. Then they took it away; what happened with it,
nobody knows. When Reich published the questionnaire in Contact
With Space, he revealed a big secret."

Basic to this scientist's understanding of the universe was the
pervasive presence of energy (which he termed orgone energy),
implying the possibility of life in space. At this time his
questioning encompassed the galactic currents, the formation and
destruction of star systems, and the origin of the universe
itself. Along with his deepening involvement in cloudbusting, he
now began a careful examination of the stars and set about
proving that some "stars" did not behave like others. The method
he used was nocturnal, time-lapse photography. In this
investigatory technique, the camera is carefully set to face the
night sky with the shutter open: the experiment proceeded with
unexpected results. Some of the stars did not produce the white
lines caused by the Earth's rotation. These stars simply
vanished indicating they were something else. He now began to
wonder in earnest what they might be, and specifically what they
were doing in the skies over Maine.

Reich saw the Oranur Experiment, with its massive pollution of
the Maine area, as the cause of their immediate interest in the
region. Considering his own observations, those of a number of
co-workers, and independent reports of UFO activity over Maine,
it was hardly egoistic that he should assume that his activities
might be the subject of their special attention. If these craft
had harnessed the sea of energy pervading the universe, what
might be the effect of training a cloudbuster on one? The
results of this action were both profound and disturbing. He
writes in Contact With Space:

"I hesitated for weeks to turn my cloudbuster pipes toward a
"star" as if I had known that some of the blinking lights
hanging in the sky were no planets or stars but space machines.
With the fading out of the two "stars," the cloudbuster had
suddenly changed into a space-gun. When I saw the "star" to the
west fade out four times in succession, what had been left of
the old world of human knowledge after the discovery of orgone
energy, tumbled beyond retrieve. From now on everything,
anything, was possible. Nothing could any longer be considered
"impossible." I had directed the draw-pipes connected with the
deep well towards and ordinary star and the star had faded out
four times. There was no mistake about it. Three more people had
seen it. There was only one conclusion: The thing we had drawn
from was not a star. It was something else - a UFO! The shock of
this experience was great enough not to repeat such an action
until 10 October 1954."

Preceding this, on October 5 and 6, three large, yellow UFOs
hung low over the southern horizon with another over the
observatory on Reich's property. On October 10, a large reddish
UFO hovered just to the south of the property. At this point,
the cloudbuster was trained on it and it moved. The unknown
became less red as the device kept its aim, then moved higher,
and later sank down below the horizon. Shortly thereafter, a
second light (yellow) appeared in the west. After two minutes of
direct drawing, it faded, came back, flashed, pulsated, and
wobbled while moving irregularly from south to north. There was
for Reich the distinct, subjective impression of a struggle. It
came back again shortly after, and again, became fainter and
smaller after drawing on it. The remaining four unknowns (to the
north, south and west) then removed themselves, disappearing
from sight."

On October 10, for a second time, Reich dimmed "stars" and
induced them to move, "as if in flight in different directions."
He again concluded they were machines, and not ones of
terrestrial origin. While it might seem naive to some, Reich
choose to direct his written concerns regarding this likelihood
directly to President Eisenhower. The White House response asked
him to send such communications to the Air Force, and to the
CIA. As a result, a letter articulating his observations of, and
concerns about UFOs was sent to the Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, a career Naval Intelligence officer named
Roscoe H. Hillenkotter. Reich would have had no way of knowing,
but in more rarefied circles the Director was sometimes referred
to by another title - MJ-1.

Not only had Reich inadvertently made contact with a member of
the President's Ultra Secret UFO working group, he had reached
out to its top man. Was the information Reich supplied a
contributing factor in Hillenkoetter's becoming such a vocal
opponent of UFO secrecy following his stepping down as Director,
or was this simply part of a plan to allow an extremely highly
placed operative to insinuate himself smack in the center of
civilian UFO counterculture? I cannot say, but I am convinced
that if the members of MJ-12 were not aware of Reich's UFO-
related activities prior to October 1954, they were from that
time on, and would have identified him as a man whose actions
bore monitoring, and possibly worse.

In Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, Jim Martin identifies one
other plausible link between Reich and MJ-12, and his name was
Lewis W. Douglas. Reich refers to him briefly in Contact With
Space as the Director Savings and Loan, and as a close associate
of President Eisenhower. He was also Director of Research for
the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Tucson and a man very
interested in weather control. Their first contact dates from
1954 when Reich had his assistant, William Moise, attempt to
contact Douglas and arrange a meeting with him. It had not been
Reich who suggested to Moise that he get in touch with Douglas,
it had been Charles Gardner, Jr., Executive Secretary of the
Advisory Committee on Weather Control for the government; he was
also the National Weather Bureau's liaison with the Institute of
Atmospheric Physics. Gardner had actually written to Moise on
March 21, 1955 saying "we appreciate being informed of your
activities." Douglas's secretary wrote up Moise's calls in the
form of memos. The first one read, in part, "He {Moise} had just
come from Washington and had spoken to people in the Dept. of
Agriculture, Weather Bureau and in Mr. Gardner's office about
weather control. They suggested that Mr. D {Douglas} might be
interested in information he had." But no answer was forthcoming
until July 27 when Douglas cabled Moise, and Reich and Douglas
began to correspond. They likely would have met in Tucson later
that year, but Douglas had to be hospitalized for major surgery
during the time Reich visited Arizona.

My colleagues Jim Martin and Kenn Thomas (archivist, author and
conspiracy-related publisher) have engaged in some educated
speculation on the possibility of a link between Lew Douglas and
MJ-12, and it is worth relating here. I draw directly from
Martin's published comments in doing so. Douglas was known to be
very close to Eisenhower and had a well known interest in
weather control. The Douglas-Moise Memo=82 is dated July 14, 1954,
only ten days prior to the seminal National Archives=82 MJ-12
document, the Cutler-Twining Memo. Thomas reminds us that Robert
Cutler had been with the CIA as a psyops (psychological
operations) expert, and instrumental in bringing Eisenhower's
"Atoms for Peace" to completion. In his memo, Cutler informs
USAF General Nathan Twining (MJ-4) that a scheduled meeting is
being changed, and that the "Special Studies Project" would now
meet "during the already scheduled White House meeting of July
16, rather than following it as previously intended." What the
actual reason for this change, it insured that President
Eisenhower would be in attendance. Quoting Martin:

Thomas suggests that the timing of this sequence of events might
indicate that Douglas, as a member of Eisenhower's "kitchen
cabinet," may have been privy to or associated with the MJ-12
group. I agree that Douglas, one of the most powerful men in
American politics at the time, would have known about MJ-12 if
it existed. Thomas argues that Douglas, having been briefed
about the meeting of MJ-12 members on July 16 at the White
House, developed a more serious interest in Reich's planned
operations in Tucson on the basis of Reich's observations of
UFOs. This would have explained the sudden change in attitude on
July 27, 1955, when Douglas sent a telegram to Moise inviting
further correspondence. After all, Douglas had hired a "UFO
nut," James E. McDonald, to head the IAP in 1954."

Freewheeling conspiratorial musings or grounded, informed
speculation? Personally, I subscribe to the latter. For the
record, Martin establishes that Reich drove through Roswell on
his way to Tucson. There is some intriguing anecdotal evidence
that he returned there, but it is not inconclusive.

Reich's point of view on UFOs shifted between 1953 and 1957. At
first he theorized they were benign observers, but gradually
became convinced that, either by intention or accident, they
were contributing to the pollution accumulating in the
atmosphere. Contact With Space, privately published after his
1957 death, documents early weather modification, or CORE
(cosmic orgone engineering) operations and the 1954-55
cloudbusting expedition to Arizona. The book, published in an
edition of only five hundred, details a great deal more
information than this paper is designed to cover, and it is not
my intention here to synopsize this sweeping text, only that
Reich's scientific observations of, interactions with, and
findings on UFOs chronicled in Contact With Space made it
indispensable in the preparation of this article.

The following day, October 11, Reich authorized his friend,
research associate and son-in-law (who was a trained cloudbuster
operator), to call the Air Technical Intelligence Command (ATIC)
in Dayton, Ohio, and make an appointment to discuss the
disabling of the UFOs the previous day. Moise was in Ohio on his
way to Arizona at the time. A meeting with a General Watson was
agreed upon on for October 14. Over the phone Watson asked
Moise, if necessary, could their conference be continued into
the evening, and how did Reich know that the UFOs had been
disabled? Moise arrived at the facility early on the 14th where
he was met by a Dr. Byers, a physicist employed by the command.
Byers escorted Moise to the conference, also attended by a USAF
Captain Hill and a civilian named Harry Haberer (6:8). Asking
where General Watson was, Moise was told that he was unable to
attend. Angered, Moise left and returned to his Dayton motel.
The next day Moise received a phone call from Captain Hill
conveying Watson's apologies and was asked if the report could
be made to ATIC Deputy Commander Colonel Wertenbaker. Moise
agreed and they met later that day. Present were Captain Hill,
Dr. Byers, Haberer and the Colonel. Moise gave an oral
presentation and all took notes except the Colonel. Feeling that
this had been a significant meeting, that at least some
breakthrough had been made in interesting a branch of the
government in Reich's observations of the involvement with UFOs,
Moise wrote that:

The contact with Col. Wertenbaker was excellent throughout the
conference. He was serious, intent and looked at me while I
talked. He was the only one who did. His excitement increased as
the report progressed.

Several days later, the Colonel wrote to the Director of
Intelligence for the Air Force - somehow this note ended up in
the Food and Drug Administration's case file on Reich. It read
in part:

General Watson did not talk personally to Mr. Moise, I am happy
to say, but I interviewed this person . . . the information
given us by Moise defies description and I'll not attempt to
give you the details . . . the Air Force will do well to avoid
entanglements but what is absolutely necessary from the
standpoint of good public relations.

Dr. Byers, the physicist, told Moise that he was familiar with
Reich's work. Harry Haberer, the civilian in attendance, was
described as working on the history of UFOs with the Air Force.
Leaving Ohio, Moise continued on to Arizona. Meanwhile, Reich,
his son Peter, and several others were driving west as well.
Each vehicle carried an appropriate assortment of laboratory
equipment and had a cloudbuster in tow. They arrived at the
leased property ten miles outside of Tucson on October 19, 1954.
Once settled in, they commenced drawing operations, regularly
observing the atmosphere with their meteorological instruments.
Records were kept in accordance with strict scientific method.
Individual journals were also kept.

Robert McCulloch, another trained cloudbuster operator, assisted
Reich and Moise in the operation. Drawing began at the end of
October and many UFOs were observed during the nights of October
31 and November 1 over the area. By November 7, moisture in the
atmosphere had risen from the usual 15% to 65%, an unheard of
relative humidity for Tucson. Drawing continued, mostly from the
southwest direction. On November 7, the first clouds were
forming thickly and soon covered the sky, indicating rain. Then,
without apparent explanation, the clouds began to decompose.
That evening, a large, bright UFO was seen coming up from the
north. It moved slowly southwest until it stopped and hovered
for several hours ten to fifteen degrees above the southern
horizon. A connection between the dissipation of clouds and the
presence of UFOs in the skies seemed unavoidable after this
sequence of events continued to repeat itself.

Weather modification was a subject of genuine interest to a
number of military and civilian offices within the Eisenhower
Administration, and the Tucson-based Institute of Atmospheric
Physics was founded in 1953 as a direct result of the
President's 1953 Advisory Committee on Weather Control. An
atmospheric physicist with a background in Naval intelligence
was appointed to the committee as Associate Director, and at
some point during that November or December may have met Reich.
His name was Dr. James E. McDonald, and we know him to be
another scientist of great courage and passion, one who, like
Reich, had the temerity to work toward bringing the subject of
serious UFO studies to the American public, much to the
detriment of both their careers. Eva Reich recalled that
McDonald had visited the cloudbusting site when a TV crew came
to film their operations, and that both he and Reich had been
interviewed for the report. But the footage was never aired.
=46rom what we know of Dr. McDonald, there is every likelihood he
would have had cause for serious interest in at least two areas
of Reich's work. Still, we do not know conclusively whether the
two actually met, and possibly talked that day, or whether their
paths had merely crossed on the edge of that desert. But there
is the additional factor to consider as well - that at the time
McDonald was working closely with and for the previously
discussed Lew Douglas.

By November 13, the relative humidity had risen to 67% and rain
seemed imminent in a location which had seen none in five years.
But by that evening the humidity had dropped twenty points to
47%. The next day, two bright, pulsating, flashing UFOs were
seen low in the eastern sky. Upon direct draw, the first dimmed
after an initial stronger blinking, then remained dim. The
second wobbled, then it too, dimmed markedly. Suddenly, a third
came up in the east, as if from nowhere. Early on the morning of
the 18th, a UFO was seen on the horizon and within two hours an
Air Force aircraft was seen circling the area. More UFOs
continued to be observed in direct relationship with the
destruction of the relative humidity.

On the morning of November 29, Reich, looking at the eastern sky
through a three-and-a-half inch refracting telescope, observed a
fully articulated cigar-shaped craft. In his notes he writes
that he first refused to accept the notions, but windows were
clearly observed on the object and recorded in his drawings. The
ship was observed, as cloud cover would allow, off and on
between December 1 and December 17. Charts of its movements were
kept.

By December 14, the atmosphere in the area of the base camp, and
indeed, in Tucson itself was oppressive and deadening. Just
prior to this Reich's associate, Dr. Silvert, had transported a
small amount of radioactive material that had been exposed in an
accumulator from Maine to the Tucson site. The material had to
be towed on a cable one hundred feet behind a hired plane as its
lead shielding was unable to contain its altered reaction. At
about 4:30 PM, a huge black cloud formed over the Tucson area,
gradually turning deep purple with a somewhat reddish glow. The
background radiation count in the area jumped to an alarming one
hundred thousand counts per minute. The usual background count
had been holding at six to eight hundred counts per minute.
Twelve Air Force planes over flew the base camp and their
contrails (made of water vapor) quickly dissolved. Twenty
minutes after both cloudbusters began drawing, the skies cleared
At 5:30 PM four B-56 bombers flew in low over the area. Reich
felt that this "cloud" masked the presence of other UFOs. If so,
this incident was indeed properly categorized as a battle.
Interest in the newly arrived and highly aggravated radioactive
material was a suspected cause of their appearance.

As these historic events were transpiring, the University of
Arizona's weather modification study was ongoing and in process.
Part of the study involved the time-lapse photography of jet
planes contrails. As recorded, Reich had observed and reported
their presence during various cloudbusting operations, and had
observed the disintegration of their contrails during operations
in Arizona. He even wondered "Whether the Air Force had actually
such problems in mind, I cannot tell." Investigative author Jim
Martin was able to locate color film from the fifties in the
University of Arizona's Physics and atmospheric Science Building
showing Air Force jets being used in weather modification
experiments as Reich himself had wondered about. These and other
such findings led me to believe that our government had a very
real interest in Dr. Reich's UFO observations and findings, as
well as in his weather modification work =88 from the President on
down. By way of one last example (or coincidence) we should take
note that on November 22, 1955, President Eisenhower's proposal
for the peaceful use of atomic energy was accepted by the United
Nations. It was called "Atoms for Peace." Some months prior,
Reich had sent Eisenhower a copy of his paper documenting the
Oranur Experiment, and the operations and experiments that had
sprung from it. The paper was entitled "Atoms for Peace."

The literature generated about Reich's contempt trial is
considerable and any treatment here must oversimplify its many
complexities. While interested readers should try and locate a
copy of Jerome Greenfield's book, Wilhelm Reich versus the USA,
among other works on the subject, the basics are as follows. The
Federal Drug Administration had begun accumulating information
toward building a case against the scientist shortly after
Mildred Brady's article appeared in 1947, but it had been slow
going. None of Reich's past or current patients or any of those
with the physicians he=82d trained in medical orgone therapy had
registered a complaint with the FDA, or any other authority for
that matter. Reich and his associates had broken no laws, but
given that the FDA knew he was a quack and orgonomy a fraud, it
stood to reason there was no need to put any of his alleged
experiments to the test. Their responsibility was to bring this
sex obsessed medical menace to justice and they remained
undeterred in their efforts. And so the FDA went to the federal
court and brought a complaint against the interstate shipment of
accumulators or any components thereof. Their break came in 1955
when one of Reich's physicians, Dr. Michael Silvert, did just
that, and Reich, then involved in the Tucson cloudbusting
operation, took legal responsibility for the injunction's
violation. Silbert felt that allowing the matter to go to court
would be the equivalent of admitting they were in the wrong.
Reich, after due consideration, agreed and wrote to the judge
explaining his decision noting that his argument might be
rejected; they did, and the complaint became an injunction.

FDA agents began showing up on Reich's property, but he refused
to allow them access to any of his apparatus's or written
materials and continued with his experiments. This resulted in a
contempt of court citation, and while their original legal parry
had been civil, it had now graduated to a criminal and a court
date was set. Given the betrayal of his lawyers, he decided to
represent himself, and against the advice of some of those
closest to him, chose to make the trial a forum for the validity
of his research and findings. Eloquent though he was, the judge
would have none of it and he was convicted and sentenced to two
years in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania. He was fifty nine years old.

Once in prison Reich underwent psychiatric evaluation. Staff
psychiatrists noted that he "gave no concrete evidence of being
mentally incompetent," but diagnosed him as being a paranoid
schizophrenia, this while admitting their finding was "not based
on physical evaluation." Early release was denied and the
Supreme Court chose not to comment on his final writ. He was
found dead in his cell on November 3, 1957, just seven days
before his scheduled release date.

Since his death, most accounts of Dr. Wilhelm Reich's life and
work, be they supportive or otherwise, follow a similar logic:
that the level of importance which he ascribed to his UFO
observations (and his allegations that the communists were out
to get him) were, in themselves, a means of "proving," or at
least suggesting that he had gone quite mad during his last
years. Such material is often presented in a manner suggesting
that a good deal of "fairness," objectivity and patience were
spent in sorting all this out=82 for the reader. Some writers
don=82t even bother. With no real interest in fair scientific
inquiry or method, and no serious grounding in UFO studies,
orgonomy, or the documented specifics of the conspiracy to
destroy his reputation and discredit his work, Reich's
detractors accuse and rant, exposing the madness they perceive.
Often written in angry displays of public-spirited concern, they
warn the good reader away, like police at the scene of an
accident. Other accounts are simply inaccurate.

In Contact With Space, Dr. Wilhelm Reich's reflections on the
possible implications of an extraterrestrial reality are often
moving, profound and disturbing. He dares, as a scientist, to
exercise a most precious right: the right to challenge an
established and accepted belief, the right to think a thought,
no matter how others might perceive it, recording that thought
for publication and standing by it in the face of almost
universal criticism. Read out of context - that is, without
benefit of any serious study of his previous writings,
methodology or discoveries - even the most intelligent and
perceptive reader may find it preferable to dismiss his
observations and conclusions as bearing witness to a great mind
finally derailed, rather than even considering them seriously.
The very act of claiming to have observed UFOs, and, over time,
their behavior, interacting with them via the cloudbuster,
ascribing to them intelligence and intention, keeping the Air
Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Bureau and
the office of the President appraised of his activities, and
finally, the posthumous publishing of Contact With Space, proved
intolerable to all by a few.

Even A. S. Neill, the distinguished British educator who was
Reich's loyal friend and colleague of many years, seemed
convinced these findings would only prove to be an embarrassment
to orgonomy. But not at first. In March of 1955, Neill wrote to
Reich:

Thanks for the saucer book which came a few days ago. It sure
made me sit up. So much Air Force testimony can't be ignored,
Inclined to accept your opinion that they are benign {an opinion
which changed markedly}, the only problem I can imagine would be
their arrival here to stop the inevitable atomic destruction of
all life. Mutual fear won't stop war. Almost looks as if Freud
was right in saying there is a death instinct when one sees the
whole mass of people thinking of football and radio etc. at a
time when the sinking of a U.S. aircraft carrier off Formosa or
the enthusiasm of a U.S. pilot might set the light to the
gunpowder barrel. Hence I say: let the spacemen come; they might
save us and if they came as destroyers they could not be more
dangerous than man himself.

I should stress here that Reich had few friendships or
professional relationships of such duration and depth and it is
not my intention to put a particular cast on Neill here. It is
just that he articulated the prevailing attitude so well. In
December 1957, a month after Reich's death, he wrote this to
Ilse Ollendorff, Reich's former wife and co-worker:

The difficulty will not be to separate what's valuable from what
isn't. The idea that the trial was orchestrated from Moscow is
just bunkum, and we have no proof of flying saucers anyway. Why
should Reich's great work be mixed up with either factor? That
Reich later had some illusions I think right, but they don't so
anything to lessen his work. We all have illusions and maybe the
greater we are, the greater the illusions. But that Eva {Reich's
daughter} and Moise {his son-in-law} and Steig {cartoonist and
illustrator of Reich's book Listen Little Man}, and a financial
backer of the Arizona expedition} should go on having illusions
is bad, bad for the future of Reich's acceptance as a scientist.

And there's the rub: "bad for the future of Reich's acceptance
as a scientist" - a consideration not taken lightly by Neill and
others deeply concerned about the future of orgonomy. I can only
wonder how Neill would have reacted had he been in the room when
students and faculty members at his beloved Summerhill school
described the UFO sightings they had had from the Summerhill
property in Leiston, Suffolk on the occasions I was a speaker
there. Author David Boadella sums the conundrum up:

why did the orthodox scientists and psychologists condemn Reich?
Why did they dismiss him as a paranoiac while Raknes (a
Norwegian colleague) and Dr. Hoppe of Israel and lots of the
sane American surgeons and physicians and I thought him to be
the most important thinker of our time? . . . I must face the
question that was so often raised by his enemies - his sanity. .
. . Apparently he believed that flying saucers were from other
worlds without due proof. Yet when the judge ordered him to be
examined by a board of psychiatrists, they pronounced him sane.

They were not alone. The great Reich scholar, Professor Paul
Matthews of New York University observed in his 1973 review of
Boadella's book, Wilhelm Reich: The Evolution of His Work:

Reich's scientific integrity, creativity, and genius, even to
the end of his life, need no defense or confirmation from me;
nor does his sanity need defense in the opinion of those who
were closest to him and in a position to gauge his mental
status, character structure, and work capacity at that time.

But does all this really come down to a question of Wilhelm
Reich's sanity? Medical researcher Ludwik Flek notes in his 1979
book, The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact:

What we are faced with here is not so much a simple passivity or
mistrust of new ideas as an active approach which can be divided
into several stages.

A contradiction to the system appears unthinkable

What does not fit into the system remains unseen

Alternatively, if it is noticed, either it is kept secret, or
discredited

Laborious efforts are made to explain an exception in terms that
do not contradict the system

Despite the legitimate claims of contradictory views, one tends
to see, describe, or even illustrate those circumstances which
corroborate current views and thereby give them substance.

Thus the unacceptable or unacceptable theory is excluded. The
individual who persists in putting forth such a theory may
ultimately be excluded and, in a number of historic incidences,
declared to be out of touch with "reality" or insane. You may
have the knowledge of a master scientist and still not be able
to analyze or even see beyond the accepted theories of your own
era. Reich's work demands that we do just this.

Do Dr. Reich's observations, deductions and conclusions
concerning UFOs all conform to the best contemporary knowledge
on the subject? Many of them do, and are virtually identical to
those of countless other individuals. Can we say with certainty
that his death was the result of a conspiracy or fowl play
tracing back to MJ-12, the FDA, the Communist Party, the
"Hoodlums In Government" ("HIGS," as Reich termed them) employed
by the FDA, or to that powerful segment of society who tend to
mystify biology, then mechanically attempt to impose their own
sex-negative morality on the rest of us? No. The fact is that at
the time of his death Dr. Reich had high blood pressure was
overweight and a chronic smoker. But based on what he
represented to such diverse and powerful groups, would any (or
all) of the aforementioned have desired his death and had the
will and means to implement it? Oh yes. Without a doubt. And
with the official cause of death listed as a heart attack, the
question of murder is likely to remain an open one.

Irregardless of whether he was murdered or died of natural
causes, humanity lost a brilliant and courageous thinker in
November 1957, and one whose UFO-related work remains an
extremely significant area of study for any student of ufology.
I hope this paper will encourage readers to seek out the truth
of this matter for themselves, through reading and practical
application. While the most recent of the events described here
linger in the mists of history nearly fifty years past, they
continue to remain as shattering and relevant as if they had
occurred last week. Knowledge is often its own reward and anyone
who takes the time to Reich's understand work will only benefit
from it. To ignore the profound truths it embodies affirms the
actions of those who array themselves against all that is life
affirmative, and again sets the stage for the worst aspects of
history to repeat themselves. Remember, "Love, work and
knowledge are the wellsprings of our Life. They should also
govern it."

REFERENCES

Scharaf, M.: Fury On Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich. New
York, St. Martin's Press/Marek, 1983

Reich, W, and edited by Boyd Higgins, M., and Raphael, C.:
Passion of Youth: An Autobiography. New York, Farrar Straus
Giroux, 1998

Reich, W, and edited by Boyd Higgins, M.: American Odyssey:
Letters and Journals, 1940-1947, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux,
1999

Martin, J.: Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War. Ft. Bragg,
California, Fort Bragg Books, 2000 (Note: Like Reich's Contact
With Space, Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War was published in an
edition of 500 copies, with all copies of Martin's book going to
subscribers who underwrote the cost of his research. I am
hopeful that we will see another edition of this important book
in the not too distant future.)

Robbins, P.: Wilhelm Reich and UFOs. The Journal of Orgonomy,
Volume 24, Number 2, New York, Orgonomic Publications, Inc, 1990

Robbins, P.: Wilhelm Reich and UFOs, Part II: Examining Evidence
and Allegations. The Journal of Orgonomy, Volume 25, Number 1,
New York, Orgonomic Publications, Inc, 1991

Reich, W.: Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the
Discovery of the Life Energy (American Period, 1939-1952)
Documentary Volume A - XI - E, The Einstein Affair. Rangeley,
Maine: Orgone Institute Press, 1953.

Reich, W.: Contact With Space. Rangeley, Maine: Orgone Institute
Press, 1957

Eden, J.: Planet in Trouble: The UFO Assault on Earth, New York,
The Exposition Press, 1973

Greenfield, J.: Wilhelm Reich VS. The U.S.A., New York, W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc., 1974

Westrum, R.: "The Blind Eye of Science," The Whole Earth Review,
No. 52, Fall, 1986

Boadella, D.: Wilhelm Reich: The Evolution of His Work. London:
Vision Press, 1973.

Croall, J. (ed.): Record of a Friendship: The Correspondence
Between

Wilhelm Reich and A.S. Neill. New York: Farrar &Giroux, 1981

Croall, J. (ed.): All the Best, Neill. London, Watts, 1984

Matthews, P.: "Book Review," Journal of Orgonomy, 7(2),
November, 1973

And conversations with Dr. Elsworth F. Baker, Dr Reich's former
first assistant; Reich biographer Dr. Myron Sharaf; author and
scientist, scientist and author Dr. Jim DeMeo, and investigative
writer and author Jim Martin.

* * * * * *

While almost all of the books written by Wilhelm Reich are
currently out of print, various editions are available through
better used book stores, book location services and on the
Internet. Recommended sources are The Wilhelm Reich Museum
Bookstore , The Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, The
Wilhelm Reich Museum Bookstore, The American College of Orgonomy
Bookstore. Books by Wilhelm Reich include:

American Odyssey: Letters and Journals, 1940-1947

Beyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

The Bioelectrical Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety

The Bion Experiments

The Cancer Biopathy

Contact With Space

Character Analysis

Children of the Future

Early Writings, Volume One

Ether, God and Devil / Cosmic Superimposition

The Function of the Orgasm

Genitality

The Impulsive Character

The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality

Listen, Little Man!

The Mass Psychology of Fascism

The Murder of Christ

Passion of Youth: An Autobiography

People in Trouble

Record of a Friendship

Reich Speaks of Freud

Selected Writings

The Sexual Revolution

Peter Robbins has been involved in UFO studies for more than
twenty-five years, as a researcher, investigator, writer,
lecturer, activist and author. He is a board member of Budd
Hopkins' Intruders Foundation (which investigates the alien
abduction phenomenon) and contributor to Phenomena Magazine and
to their sister website, www.phenomenamagazine.com. He is also
the only Western staff writer for the Tokyo-based OUR-J UFO
Report. Robbins is co-author, along with Larry Warren, of the
British best-seller, Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of
the Bentwaters-Woodbridge UFO Incident, Its Cover-Up and
Investigation.

In December 2005 Peter will be embarking on a UK lecture tour to
mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rendlesham Forest UFO
incident and publication of a revised and updated edition of
Left At East Gate.


[Thanks to Stuart Miller of http://www.uforeview.net for the lead]