A Future Beyond Imagination! "The appearance of flying saucers in our skies has long become accepted as common knowledge. However, it has not been well known that thousands of individuals around the world have not only seen them, but have actually ridden in these craft and personally met with their occupants. What these "contactees," as they are recognized in ufology circles, have discovered is that the pilots and other crew members of these interplanetary and interdimensional space ships are not the grotesque beings they are frequently portrayed as in our science fiction movies. Rather, they are highly intelligent, friendly men and women from civilizations who have cosmically evolved far in advance of our own. Dr. Raymond A. Keller, II , award-winning author and retired History professor, is the author of the Venus Rising trilogy. Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus and Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure are newest in the series. Dr. Keller's books explore various facets of conditions and life on Venus in many dimensions from a perspective of conspiracies, history, theosophy, ufology and current events, especially space research. To date, Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet, won awards at the Southern California and London Book Festivals. Dr. Keller has lived and worked in 44 different countries and has been writing about UFOs and paranormal activity since 1967. He was the founder and director of the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) of Hilmar, California, as well as the publisher and co-editor of the New Millennial Star, a monthly pre-Internet tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. He received his doctoral degree from West Virginia University in 2011 focusing on various aspects of the Basque settlement of Venezuela, and received his Master's degree from the same institution in 2004 in foreign language with an emphasis on Magic Realism in Latin American literature.