Contact With Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951-1956. Orop Desert Ea, 1954-1955 [Photocopy]

New York: Core Pilot Press, 1957. Photocopy of first limited edition. Oblong octavo with tan cardstock covers and black plastic velobinding; xxiii, 265 pages: illustrations; approx 22x35cm A old photocopy of first edition; wraps are age-toned and sunned, with minor dampstains and smudging; handwritten spine title in red ink; original copy had prior owner signature and intermittent underlining; pages clean with occasional spots and several pages where text is faint or cut off. Paperback.

Scarce. Photocopy of #78 of limited first edition run. Prior owner signature of the porioginal work (not the photocopy) appears to be that of Peter Hayes Davis, founder of the science of Energy Field Psychology. "Contact with Space" was Reich's final publication, and is one of the most sought-after UFO books by controversial Freudian psychologist Wilhelm Reich. He reports on his experiments with cloudbusting in the American southwest desert with orgone energy, occasionally fighting off mysterious sky entities with his inventions. While many have dismissed this period of Reich's thought, others have pointed to covert US Air Force interest in his work and the book's observant nature prose. "THE CORE PILOT PRESS takes pleasure in announcing its first publication - CONTACT WITH SPACE, the Second Oranur Report, by Wilhelm Reich. CONTACT WITH SPACE is being published in relation to the current western Dust Bowl problem, and to the larger problem of the planetary DOR [Deadly Orgone] Emergency of which desert development is one aspect. It contains the result of six years of intensive research and field work, a natural scientific account of the basis of, and of practical measures for combating the DOR Emergency. Due to the acuteness of the Emergency it was considered a social and human responsibility to put CONTACT WITH SPACE into public circulation, though it contains hitherto top secret information." - [Quotation from the dust wrapper blurb, found on another listing for the book] //Orgonomie, Orgonomy, Ovnis, Orbs, UAP, UFO, Unidentified flying objects