Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus Adventure Perfect Paperback – July 14, 2017

Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus AdventuresIn the customer reviews section of the Amazon page for Dr. Raymond Keller’s Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus Adventures, is an entry from Warren P. Aston of Australia. I think Aston’s review is disgraceful because it contains factual errors that need to be cleared up. Aston states that only one photo of Dolores Barrios never published in the UFO community appears in the book, when in actuality there are three, to be found on pages 37, 86 and 90. These photos are documented as being taken of Dolores Barrios by Gabriel Green of a Yucca Valley, California, UFO group, Pal and Dixie Garrett of another UFO group in Paradise, California, and Don Dwiggins, an aviation writer of the Los Angeles, California, Daily News, respectively, and referenced as such in the book. Apparently, Aston never read the entire book or he would know this.Also, Aston states that a photo of Cosmic Ray standing next to Aura Rhanes at a “book promotion” appears in the book. And while there are photos and drawings of Aura Rhanes in the book, there are none of them with Dr. Keller in the book Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventures. There are some of her in other books appearing with Dr. Keller and Rob Potter of the Promise Revealed in a public library where she was being interviewed.Aston says the Venusians in Dr. Keller’s book are “patently human,” and hence not believable, because he (Aston) says they are just “props;” but I did some checking and found out that Aston edits and writes books about Venusians on Earth appearing as average human beings himself.Rather than question Dr. Keller’s motivations for writing his Venus books, I have to wonder what ulterior motives are behind Aston’s criticisms. After all, Dr. Keller states outrightly that his books are written in the style of the Latin American genre of “magical realism” to be both entertaining and enlightening. The extensive scientific references are supplied for the reader to verify the existence of the types of phenomena that Dr. Keller writes about and to open the minds of his readers about the reality of advanced extraterrestrial life visiting our planet in flying saucers and a vast conspiracy to specifically cover up the knowledge of the presence of such life forms on the planet Venus by four of the space-faring powers on Earth (the European Union, Japan, Russia/former Soviet Union and the United States) that have sent space probes there.Dr. Keller is a retired, disabled U.S. military veteran who has been investigating and writing about UFOs for nearly six decades. He is the survivor of quadruple by-pass surgery at the VA hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who wanted to write his Venus books for posterity of what he learned about the UFO enigma before he transitions on. Dr. Keller just represents himself and is not promoting any organization, secular or religious. He just sells his Venus books and that is all. He maintains that thousands have experienced contact with friendly ETs and doesn’t claim to be the exclusive channel.By the way, apparently Aston is unaware that George Adamski himself, and many of the other pioneer contactees, were believed to be “dramatic and bizarre,” as he so misrepresented Dr. Keller. Dr. Keller, writing about bees on Venus, doesn’t seem so strange in light of the recent scientific findings regarding the existence of phosphines in the Venusian atmosphere, indicative of the presence of some type of complex biological ecosystem going on there. On the other hand, Aston’s books and the other author’s books, that Aston is paid to edit, exhibit only a limited anthropomorphic view of life on other planets.

Dr Keller is a true believer, and backs up his beliefs in fact and evidence. I highly recommend you purchase and read this title, as well as all his available work!

This is one of the greatest books I have ever read. Also, there is so much information and organizations worldwide that are mentioned in this book. After reading this book no one can deny there are people from other planets on our planet and so much has been hidden from us. Its a book that will definitely wake up the masses.

Ray Keller's Venus-themed books offer a style of sci-fact/fiction fantasy that is unique to him. The text moves quickly between genres; at one moment a competent (often superfluous) discussion on some "scientific" aspect is being discussed at length, then the text abruptly shifts to an imagined episode involving Cosmic Ray and a beautiful sidekick, usually "Lady Orda" aka Dolores Barrios, and always involving planetary jumps and some time travel. To say that the fiction is dramatic and bizarre is an understatement. By halfway through the book the reader begins to realize that it is an attempt to connect almost every UFO/alien contact experience every reported over the past 60 or so years, with a few surprises (a Nazi landing on Venus where bee-people rescue him from indigenous giant wasps, for example). So long as one doesn't take it seriously, it can be read as highly original sci-fi. Along the way, the book shows various other "Venusians" including Truman Bethurum's beret-wearing "Aura Rhanes" standing along Keller at a recent book promotion. Despite all being patently human, she and other Venusians - whom Keller insists are "the real thing" also act as visual aids. Those who were hoping, as I was, for insight into the mysterious "Dolores B" (who was actually photographed in 1954 with two companions at Palomar after a UFO convention) will find only a single image taken at Giant Rock that appears to be her - never previously published in the UFO field - but one, like the book, that only raises more questions than answers.This title gets my vote as "Most Original Sci-Fi Fantasy Book."