With the help of the Venusians, in the newest addition to his Venus Rising series of international awards-winning books, Flying Saucers and the Venus Legacy, Dr. Raymond Andrew Keller, a.k.a. "Cosmic Ray," explores the astounding science behind the flying saucer enigma. Since that momentous day in 1987 when he and seven others in the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) first made open, physical contact with Lady Encara, an ascended master and space commander from Venus on the slopes of Mt. Shasta in northern California, Dr. Keller has become one of the most controversial authorities on the alien presence here on Earth. Of a recent appearance of Cosmic Ray at a meeting of the Paranormal Search group in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Tony Pugliese, that organization's website editor, posted the following comment: "During the presentation we were given a good idea of the scope of extraterrestrial contact that we might be encountering here on Earth, including the apparent claims of a Canadian official that we are, in fact, being visited by around 80 species! Of course, it's impossible to verify these claims, but the preponderance of evidence that we are being visited by something (or 'several somethings') unearthly remains overwhelming. Dr. Keller also gave great insight into extraterrestrial technology that sent everyone in the room scrambling for their cell phones to Google the information he was giving us. This was a truly eye-opening presentation that makes us all long for the days of the 'flying saucer clubs' of the 1950s, back when all of this was both recent national news and serious business." Get ready to hop aboard a flying saucer to outer space with the Cosmic Ray. We'll rendezvous with a mothership and meet many of our brothers and sisters from Venus and other member worlds in the Galactic Confederation of Light. Raymond Andrew Keller, II, was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently is a lecturer of Greek and Roman Culture and Civilization and Greco-Roman Mythology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He also serves as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America), attached to In Touch and Concerned, a United Way agency in Monongalia County, West Virginia, where he assists persons with disabilities, seniors and veterans in securing affordable transportation options. He also teaches various social studies classes as an adjunct professor at West Virginia Northern Community College in Wheeling, West Virginia. Keller has been involved in active UFO research since 1967, when he was a reporter for the Bedford Times Register in his hometown of Bedford, Ohio, and a research associate with Earl J. Neff, the founder and director of the Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP). Keller established his own group in 1986, the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) and was the publisher and co-editor with Ballarion Starr of that organization’s monthly organ, The New Millennial Star. Keller has conducted numerous excursions to UFO hot spots throughout the world and has communicated directly with extraterrestrials on many occasions. Venus Rising is his second book; the first being Emergence of the Afro-Zulians in the Transatlantic World, 1722-1811 (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2013). He graduated from Bedford Senior High School in Bedford, Ohio and went on to honorably serve in both the United States Navy, where he was the feature editor of the Miramar Naval Air Station Jet Journal in San Diego, California; and in the United States Army, where he worked as a voice intercept operator in the Spanish language throughout Latin America. He received an associate degree in business from the University of Maryland and his bachelor of arts in world history from the University of Maryland, both degrees while on active duty. In 1989 he successfully completed the Multicultural Education Program at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico, whence he went on to become the Director of English as a Second Language and Bilingual/Multicultural Education programs for secondary education at the Hilmar Unified School District in the San Joaquin Valley in California from 1990-1995. Keller was employed by VENUSA (Venezuela-United States Academy) in Mérida, Venezuela, in 2001 and 2002 as an ESL instructor and editor of the textbook division. He also was attached to La Universidad Valle del Momboy in Valera, Venezuela, from VENUSA. He returned to the United States in 2002 to accept a scholarship in foreign languages at West Virginia University, receiving his master’s degree in Spanish with an emphasis on Latin American literature in May 2004. He enrolled in the doctoral program in the Department of History in the fall of 2004, and mostly taught classes on Africana Studies, with some World History and Latin America.