The foundational mechanism claim of the Orgone Energy Accumulator, as alleged in the FDA’s 1954 complaint for injunction: that Wilhelm Reich had discovered a form of energy present in the atmosphere, for which he coined the term orgone energy; that organic material “attracted and absorbed the alleged orgone energy” while metallic material, “though it attracted the energy, quickly reflected it”; and that layering the two, organic material always outermost, meant, in the complaint’s words, “a direction was thereby given to the alleged energy from the outside to the inside where the alleged energy was collected and concentrated.” The complaint further alleges that the user would become aware of this concentrated energy only through “feelings of prickling, warmth, relaxation and reddening of the face,” alongside a claimed rise in body temperature (the surviving scan of the complaint is illegible at the exact figure) — a wholly subjective and non-specific set of sensations, never linked to an independent physical measurement of any orgone field. Classified mechanism_only because the asserted energy had no independent physical detection method; classified refuted because the 1954 federal injunction found, and the defendants never contested on the merits, that the devices were incapable of collecting or accumulating any such energy from the atmosphere and that the claimed energy did not exist.