 He and his son would spend their nights searching for UFOs through telescopes and binoculars , and when they believed they had found one would roll out the cloudbuster to suck the energy out of it . Reich claimed he had shot several of them down . Armed with two <unk> , they fought what Reich called a " full @-@ scale interplanetary battle " in Arizona , where he had rented a house as a base station . In Contact with Space ( 1956 ) , he wrote of the " very remote possibility " that his own father had been from outer space . 
