Raymond Andrew Keller, II, was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a retired professor of History / Literature and lecturer of Greek and Roman Culture and Civilization and Greco-Roman Mythology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, 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). 

“I’ve always been fascinated by tales of UFO contact especially with the planet Venus,” Keller said. “I spent most of my time in the United States in California, as director of OSIRIS, Outer Space International and Research and Investigations Society. So I had the opportunity to meet many of the contactees from the 1950s, Gabriel Green among them. I’ve always wanted to write a book about the contactees and life and varied aspects on the planet Venus.” 

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). 

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