Raymond Andrew Keller II
Cosmic Ray and The Birth of Venus at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Museum of Art on 20 March 2017.
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, the first book, 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.
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure is the third thrilling book in mythologist, magic realist, and ufologist, Dr. Raymond A. Keller’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning Venus Rising series. Some of the interesting—and real individuals—you'll meet in this book of astounding science include: A Canadian defense minister who “spilled the beans” about Venusians and other aliens living and working among us and “Cosmic Ray” traversing Dimension X with the Queen of Outer Space, Dolores Barrios. A couple from Northern California travel along with their group’s membership to every UFO meeting and sky watch in 1950s California with the hopes of reconnecting with Venusians they once encountered in the Mojave Desert; Krsanna Duran of TimeStar reveals startling new revelations that will shake the ufology universe. A Nevada road construction foreman at Mormon Mesa, Nevada, just outside a nuclear testing site, who encounters a female saucer pilot. Sporting a beret and looking quite the revolutionary, her name is Aura Rhanes and she is from the Venusian space base Clarion on the far side of the Moon. She’s monitoring atomic blasts in the desert. An Aerojet missile contractor who flew in a remote controlled flying saucer from White Sands, New Mexico, to New York City and back in less than 30 minutes, in 1949 no less. Never-before-seen photos taken by the contractor of Air Force personnel attached to him while working on the development of the top secret Falcon missile's dual radar and heat-seeking targeting systems are included.
Book III of the Venus Rising Trilogy: A Concise History of the Second Planet
Raymond Andrew Keller II
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Book III of the Venus Rising Trilogy: A Concise History of the Second Planet
Discover the mysteries of Venus, the planet of the Norcan Bee People. See https://www.pinterest.com/pin/223561568977721307/.
Dr. Raymond Andrew Keller, II, a.k.a. “Cosmic Ray” Headline Books, Inc. Terra Alta, WV
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Book III of the Venus Rising Trilogy: A Concise History of the Second Planet by Dr. Raymond Andrew Keller, II copyright ©2018 Raymond Andrew Keller, II All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any other form or for any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage system, without written permission from Headline Books, Inc. To order additional copies of this book or for book publishing information, or to contact the author: Headline Books, Inc. P.O. Box 52 Terra Alta, WV 26764 www.headlinebooks.com Tel: 800-570-5951 Email: mybook@headlinebooks.com ISBN 13: 9781946664044 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017944270
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This book is dedicated to all who believe in second chances. In the midst, between two thieves, was Your cross found as the balance-beam of righteousness; For while one was led down to hell by the burden of his blaspheming, The other was lightened of his sins unto the knowledge of things divine. O Christ God glory to You! —Russian Orthodox prayer based on the reading of the Gospel of Luke 23:39-43 *** The author wishes to recognize the outstanding individuals working in the Born This Way Foundation and Shining Scars organizations who strive to make this world a more compassionate and kinder place for all of us to live in and enjoy together. A portion of the profits from this book will be set aside for the worthy outreach of these non-profit organizations. When we engage in random acts of kindness, we can change the world one heart at a time.
Self Realization See http://www.polyvore.com/illustrations_drawing_angel.ge/thing?id=27490993.
Contents Foreword/Michael LaRiche, Coast-to-Coast A.M. Radio Discussion Groups...........................5 Introduction/Krsanna Duran.......................................................................................................7 Chapter 1: Turning Over a New Maple Leaf..............................................................................9 Chapter 2: The Cosmic Evolutionary Process..........................................................................32 Chapter 3: Over the Rainbow...................................................................................................38 Chapter 4: The Atomic Clouds.................................................................................................66 Chapter 5: Paradise, California.................................................................................................91 Chapter 6: “There’s no place like Venus...”............................................................................103 Epilogue: American Heritage and the National Security Act/Krsanna Duran, Time Star......108 Acknowledgments...................................................................................................................123 Index.......................................................................................................................................124 About the Author.....................................................................................................................128
Foreword Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventures is the third thrilling book in mythologist, magic realist and ufologist Dr. Raymond A. Keller’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning Venus Rising series. Some of the interesting- and real individuals- you’ll meet in this book of astounding science include: • A Canadian defense minister who “spilled the beans” about Venusians and other aliens living and working among us. •
Scientists from around the world engineering new developments to explore and understand various outer space phenomena like magnetic reconnection, traveling faster than the speed of light, and the requisites for intelligent life on other planets.
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Dr. Raymond A. Keller as the “Cosmic Ray” traversing Dimension X with the Queen of Outer Space, Dolores Barrios. This book also contains three never-before-seen photos of the Queen, to include some with the Cosmic Ray himself.
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A couple from Northern California who as the co-presidents of one of America’s first flying saucer clubs travel along with their group’s membership to every UFO meeting and sky watch in 1950’s California with the hopes of reconnecting with Venusians they once encountered in the Mojave Desert. Krsanna Duran of Time Star reveals startling new revelations that will shake the ufology universe.
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A Nevada road construction foreman at Mormon Mesa, Nevada, just outside a nuclear testing site, who encounters a female saucer pilot. Sporting a beret and looking quite the revolutionary, her name is Aura Rhanes and she is from the Venusian space base Clarion on the far side of the Moon. She’s monitoring atomic blasts in the desert.
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Possibly the second most powerful being from Venus posing as an aging, wannabe aspiring actress living in the North Hollywood Hills.
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An Aerojet missile contractor who flew in a remote controlled flying saucer from White Sands, New Mexico, to New York City and back in less than 30 minutes, in 1949 no less. Never-before-seen photos taken by the contractor of Air Force personnel attached to him while working on the development of the top secret Falcon missile’s dual radar and heat-seeking targeting systems are included.
Countless others also appear in the well-documented pages of all the Cosmic Ray’s epic Venus Rising books. So take your protein pills and put your helmet on because we are going to momentarily be blasting off for high adventures on Venus with both the Cosmic Ray himself and his long-time friend and associate, the glorious Queen of Outer Space! Michael A. LaRiche Northeast Ohio Coast-to-Coast A.M. Radio Discussion Groups Rootstown, Ohio 27 April 2017
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Introduction The following is a TimeStar communiqué delivered by Krsanna Duran concerning humankind’s place in the space-time continuum. She offers kindly words to help us develop a greater understanding of the underlying electromagnetic forces that underscore the bubble universe we currently inhabit. Magnetic reconnection and time travel are the major themes of Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure. I assure you that the Earth will survive and continue in her life evolution, in part because the Galactic Confederation has invested enormous resources in stabilizing and guarding the planet in this critical time. It was the first thing the UFO pilots talked about in the ‘50s. But the real question is what can we “worker bees” do? Every reality stream has its own timeline, grounded in coherence of magnetic forces with thought, emotion, people and events in unified fields. Contemporary perceptions of time are fragmented from the Roman Empire and Atlantis. Time travelers have vastly different views of time. What modern survivors of Rome and Atlantis view as immortality is mainly time travel, I believe. Because they see and live in the world differently than we do, time travelers appear immortal. Virtually all UFO contactees talk about time travel and long life spans. The two work together as a pair. Actively working on your understanding and mastery of magnetic forces is something everybody can do at this time of radical magnetic changes. Helena Blavatsky talked about magnetism as a fundamental force in the occult on several occasions. Farsight remote viewers make looking into the past and peering into the future seem easy... Find ways you are not defined and limited with the animal features imposed by our evolutionary process and develop these as a better way of living. This is something we “worker bees” can do every day, anywhere and anytime. Find out how you magnetize time with events. Actively work with magnetism to master it in the time continuum. First and foremost, live the highest truth you know. Ground and flow it with the Earth. Bear in mind that deep existential perspectives are never as they appear on the surface of the reality bubble. Discovering how to do this is the path of greatest learning for most people. Best regards, Krsanna 7
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“Don’t worry about the aliens, eh. They’re just here to stock up on more Molson beer before the big hockey game.” See http://weekinweird.com/2013/05/18/alien-eh-canada-doubled-reported-ufo-sightings-2012/.
The important difference between the released Canadian UFO files with other country releases is the inclusion of departmental analyses rather than simply reports of UFO sightings. According to Victor Viggiani from Exopolitics Toronto, who has been monitoring the Canadian Government UFO website since its inception, “The Canadian files do not simply list UFO sightings; they describe actions, meetings and inter-departmental memoranda generated by Canadian officials that attempt to make sense of the considerable onslaught of UFO sightings as well as referencing American problems with keeping abreast of UFO sightings.” —Dr. Michael A. Salla reporting in Honolulu Expolitics Examiner (2009) Is it possible that such advanced extraterrestrials, especially the Venusians, have been visiting our world in their flying saucers for thousands, if not millions of years? Yes, it is. At least that is what Canada’s former defense minister, Paul Hellyer, believes. Interestingly, he was in charge of our northerly neighbor’s armed forces during the height of the Cold War. He also asserts that both Russia and the United States have a lot more to worry about than the aggressive tensions generated by each other. The Canadian minister maintains that his government is in possession of evidence that there are as many as eighty alien races on Earth at the present time. In fact, they have a bone or two to pick with us, for it seems they are quite unhappy about our treatment of each other as well as our environment. In an interview with Russian journalists, the world’s highest-ranking believer in advanced extraterrestrial life explained: “They don’t want to tell us how to run our affairs, they have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and that we have the right to run it, but they are very, very concerned.” Hellyer added that, “They (the aliens) don’t think we are good stewards of our planet. We’re clear cutting our forests, we’re polluting our rivers and our lakes, and we’re dumping sewage in the oceans. They don’t like that and they made it very clear.” The high-ranking military chief emphasized that the extraterrestrials have given us a warning. He continued: “We’re really wrecking our planet and in fact that something dreadful is going to happen to it if we don’t smarten up and change our ways.” He also noted that, “We
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure spend too much time fighting each other. We spend too much money on military expenditures, and not enough on feeding the poor and looking after the homeless and the sick.”1 As to humankind’s careless destruction of our world, an old Cree proverb comes to mind: “Only after the last tree has been cut down; only after the last river has been poisoned; only after the last fish has been caught; only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.”2 The Earth’s natural ecosystems and regenerating bio-capacity are definitely and severely being degraded. This has seriously compromised the ability of our planet to sustain life, at least as we have come to know it. The fisheries, forests, oceans, rangeland, fresh water systems (lakes, wetlands, rivers) and other natural ecosystems are all under constant threat. Many ecosystems are on the verge of collapse. Air, land and water are continually being polluted. The water tables are falling. Soil erosion leads to desertification; and the effect of global warming has become akin to a runaway train, i.e. species are dying out at 1,000 times faster than their natural rate of extinction.3 To a contemporary extraterrestrial observer of humankind on Earth, our future must indeed appear bleak. These sentiments were echoed in the further comments of the Canadian defense minister: “Our future as a species, and here I mean all of the species in the world, is potentially at risk if we don’t figure what’s going on and work together to try and make life more amenable for all of us, and to work with our neighbors from other planets as well.”4 There is also a strong scriptural precedent in the care of creation. After all, the Creator has ordained that environmental stewardship is everyone’s responsibility. Consider the following verses: Genesis 1:26 (KJV): “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’” As translated correctly, the idea of “dominion in this verse expresses the concept of “stewardship.” Genesis 2:15 (KJV): “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” And also Psalm 24:1 (KJV): “The Earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it.” These scriptures, among many others, clearly indicate that humankind serves in a caretaking capacity for this planet. It is God who holds the title deed. The Earth is just on loan to us; and one day we will have to return this planet to its rightful owner(s).5 Hellyer revealed that while serving in his official capacity as Canada’s defense minister from 1963 to 1967 under the Liberal Party’s Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson’s administration, that he first came to discover that numerous species of extraterrestrials have long infiltrated our societies in Earth, some of whom “look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one.” He added that, “I would say that nearly all are benign and benevolent and they do want to help us. There may be one or two species which 1 2 3 4 5
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David McCormack, “Aliens already walk among us….,” Daily Mail, United Kingdom, 8 January 2014, http://www. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535698/Aliens-walk-theyre-refusing-share-technology-change-warring-polluting-waysclaims-former-Canadian-defense-minister.html (Accessed 19 March 2015) Quoted in Marlo Morgan, Mutant Message Down Under (New York, New York: Harper Perennial, 1991), ix “Environmental Destruction,” World Centric, 2015, http://worldcentric.org/conscious-living/environmental-destruction (Accessed 19 March 2015) McCormack “Scriptural References on Creation Care,” Georgia Interfaith Power and Light, 2015, http://www.gipl.org/Content/ Scripture.asp (Accessed 19 March 2015)
Raymond Andrew Keller II do not.”6 Most of the aliens operating on Earth, however, are from right here in our own solar system, hailing from Venus, Mars and Saturn’s largest moon, Titan;7 and fortunately all of the inhabitants of these worlds are of a friendly disposition. Venus’ Past and Present Based on historical precedent, the Venusians are especially concerned about us. According to recent findings from the European Space Agency (ESA),8 it seems that once upon a time, Venus in the third dimension was a living world with watery surface oceans. The ESA’s data from its Venus Express probe in orbit above the second planet indicates that it “may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth.” In our present and third dimensional reality, Earth and Venus seem completely different. While Earth is a lush, clement planet teeming with countless forms of life, Venus is somewhat hellish, with its surface literally roasting at temperatures hotter than those in a kitchen oven fully turned up to the highest degree. Venus in its present form is also a world with very little water. On the Earth, if it were possible to spread the oceans evenly across its surface, they would create a layer three kilometers in depth. But on Venus, if you were to condense the water vapor in its atmosphere onto its surface, it would create a global puddle just three centimeters deep. But that wasn’t always the case. It seems that eons ago Venus had lots of water, both in its atmosphere and on its surface. In the third dimension, Venus presents “Venus Express has certainly confirmed that the planet a hostile environment. See http://www. has lost a large quantity of water into space,” insisted a theregister.co.uk/2010/06/25/venus_long_ dead_aliens/. spokesperson for the ESA.9
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“Paul Hellyer: Aliens would share technology if Earth stopped wars,” National Post, Canada, 6 January 2014, http:// news.nationalpost.com/2014/01/06/former-canadian-defence-minister-claims-aliens-refuse-to-share-technology-because-of-earths-wars-pollution/ (Accessed 19 March 2015) McCormack The ESA is an intergovernmental organization of 22 member states, all situated on the European continent, with Canada as an associate member state. The ESA was established in 1975 and is headquartered in Paris, France. The ESA has also signed cooperation agreements with Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Russia and Turkey. Additionally, the ESA conducts joint projects with the European Union and NASA of the United States. The ESA is integral participant in the manning and operation of the International Space Station together with Japan, Russia and the United States. Its main spaceport is the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA’s Director General since 2003, described the organization’s mission thusly: “Today space activities are pursued for the benefit of citizens, and citizens are asking for a better quality of life on Earth. They want greater security and economic wealth, but they also want to pursue their dreams, to increase their knowledge, and they want younger people to be attracted to the pursuit of science and technology. I think that space can do all of this: it can produce a higher quality of life, better security, more economic wealth, and also fulfill our citizens’ dreams and thirst for knowledge, and attract the young generation. This is the reason space exploration is an integral part of overall space activities. It has always been so, and it will be even more important in the future.” See “Launching a New Era with JAXA: Interview with Jean-Jacques Dordain,” Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 31 October 2003, http://www.jaxa.jp/sitemap_j.html (Accessed 31 March 2015) Lewis Page, “Venus home to lost cities left by long-dead aliens, says ESA….,” Register, United Kingdom, 25 June 2010, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/25/venus_long_dead_aliens/ (Accessed 21 March 2015)
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Venus Express Dr. Colin Wilson is a British researcher attached from the University of Oxford to the ESA’s Venus Express team. Wilson obtained his PhD in planetary physics from the University of Oxford in 2003; and his main interest is atmospheric science on Venus. His title is Operations Scientist for ESA’s Venus Express; and his primary responsibility rests in coordinating the satellite’s science observations. In his own words, Wilson declares that, “I use Venus Express data to study cloud properties, winds and radiative balance on Venus.”10 From an analysis of the Venus Express data, Wilson concludes that, “Everything points to there being large amounts of water on Venus in the past.” Some theorists have posited a model suggesting that all or most of the second planet’s water existed only as clouds.11 Among those in this camp is Dr. Eric Chassefière, a co-investigator of numerous experiments flown on Phobos, Huygens, Mars Express and Venus Express. His research activities encompass studies of the interplanetary medium and planetary atmospheres. He was born in Montpellier, France, in 1956, and studied physics and graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, securing his PhD on the study of the interplanetary medium in 1986. He currently works at the University of Paris-Sud at Orsay where he is Director of the Interaction and Dynamics of Surface Environments Laboratory. There, the French researcher specializes in planetary surfaces and sub-surfaces. He is also responsible for a master’s degree program in planetology in the Paris region.12 The more conservative Chassefière suggests that most of Venus’ water never managed to fall as rain and thereby create the oceans as we have them here on Earth. However, for the present this remains but a theory. The ESA has determined that Chassefière’s model is just too “difficult to test,” adding that the data gathered so far “does not preclude the chance that colliding comets brought additional water to Venus after the surface crystallized, and these created bodies of standing water in which life may have been able to form.” And if one extends the wetter Venus model even further, it would not be too farfetched to logically suggest that if life could have emerged on prehistoric Venus, it might have attained intelligence and even a civilization before the planet’s water escaped into space and it was snuffed out. Science reporter Page speculates that, “The second planet may yet be host, beneath its swirling oven-like atmosphere, to lost cities and ruins erected by a long-dead race of Venusians…. Some ancient Venusians may yet live on in survival bunkers, either slumbering away the aeons in some analogue of the frozen sleep soon to be developed by humanity - or perhaps merely as samples of DNA-equivalent tissue signatures which could one day be reborn into living, breathing aliens.”13 Earlier Challenges to NASA Disinformation There were earlier attempts by scientists in the United States to challenge the bullying NASA’s campaign of disinformation about Venus; and no doubt these efforts served to pay the way for additional investigations and the public announcement of further positive revelations by spokespersons from the ESA and the Russian space program with respect to life of any 10
“Colin Wilson, Researcher,” University of Oxford Department of Physics, United Kingdom, 2015, https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/wilsonc (Accessed 21 March 2015) 11 Lewis Page 12 “Eric Chassefière, Biography and Lecture Abstracts,” Mars Express-ESA, 4 November 2011, http://sci.esa.int/marsexpress/49531-eric-chassefi-egrave-re/ (Accessed 21 March 2015) 13 Lewis Page
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Raymond Andrew Keller II kind being discovered on the mysterious planet. In fact, it only took a little less than three years before NASA’s smokescreen began to be questioned by prominent astronomers within the American scientific community. As the reader may recall, it was on 14 December 1962 that the Mariner 2 probe successfully made its fly-by of Venus at a distance of 21,000 miles and transmitted back to Earth its rather dismal report that the beautiful, brilliant and sparkling cloud-shrouded planet was, in reality and so sadly, a lifeless hell. Mariner 2’s radio sensors allegedly reported a surface temperature on Venus of some 800 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hotter than the melting point of zinc. This data seemed to support some information previously collected by Earth-based radio astronomers indicating that the surface was just too hot for any kind of imaginable life to exist, at least as we have come to know it. But it was on 19 December 1965 that news of the research of four courageous scientists in favor of finding life on Venus appeared in the column of the United Press International science writer, Joseph L. Myler.14 The four featured scientists were Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner of the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Herbert Friedman of the Naval Research Laboratory, Dr. Harry H. Hess of Princeton University in New Jersey, and Dr. Gordon J. F. Macdonald, a planetary physicist from the University of California at Los Angeles. All four had appeared before a closed-door session of the Senate Space Committee15 in the previous month touting the glad tidings that Venus may not be a dead world after all. All four of the scientists pointed out that in the three years since the historic voyage of Mariner 2, they and other scientists from around the world have been gradually- and cautiously in the interest of truth- lowering the apparent surface temperature of Venus to around 700 or 600 degrees Fahrenheit in their public pronouncements. And having accomplished that, they went on to issue statements to the effect of casting serious doubt on the credibility of the Mariner 2 radio sensor measurements, and all radio measurements of Venus in general. One high ranking but preferring to remain anonymous NASA scientist, when asked about this by UPI reporter Myler, stated that he concurred with his four colleagues: “They’re right, you know. Such radio methods cannot be depended upon to provide credible answers.” He added that, “Frankly, we’ll never know the temperature of Venus until we go there and stick a thermometer on it.”16 Here’s what the fantastic four had to say about the matter. Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner: “Venus may well be the abode of some kind of life.” Dr. Herbert Friedman: “Venus may be as lively as she is beautiful. Conditions near the planet’s cloud top are favorable for the development of living molecules. We have noted the possibility that Venus possesses high mountain ranges with moderate temperatures. Radio astronomers have, in fact, deduced from recent radar investigations that Venus is crisscrossed by two mountain ranges, one as extensive as the Rockies and the other even larger.” Dr. Harry H. Hess: “Even if the surface temperature is around 600 degrees, it may be that life got started and thrives suspended in cooler regions of the dense atmosphere. After all, on our own planet, fish, plankton of many sorts and even mammals live suspended in our oceans.” Dr. Gordon J. F. Macdonald: “The high temperature findings could have been false readings of electronic emissions generated in the planet’s atmosphere.” Clearly, it was Macdonald’s view that was primarily held to be true by the Soviets, that 14 15 16
Joseph L. Myler, “Life Likely on Venus, Say Astronomers,” 19 December 1965, Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, United States Senate: Tenth Anniversary 1958-1968 (Senate Document 90-116), Clinton P. Anderson, Democrat, New Mexico, Presiding. Myler.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure just one month previously- on 12 and 16 November- launched one probe on each of these respective dates destined for Venus fly-bys in late February 1966. The Soviets were definitely contesting the United States’ claim that Mariner 2 detected such a heated environment on the Venusian surface. An announcement made by the Soviet space program through the Tass News Agency declared that their Venera craft would utilize the same types of radio sensors and techniques as the United States did with its Mariner 2 precisely to determine if such high surface temperatures extended across the entire face of Venus, or even if they existed at all. The Soviets didn’t believe a word the Americans were saying about Venus being a dead, lifeless orb. And as White Stork revealed, the Soviets were channeling most of their future space shots to Venus rather than the Moon or any other planet in the solar system. Venus was their best bet. The interest of the Soviets in further Venus exploration was the major concern of the Senate committee and the reason for calling this important and classified hearing. While the gist of the meeting was leaked to Myler NASA threw up a smoke screen about life and the press, the complete, official transcript is still on Venus and other planets. See http:// conspiracy.outthereufo.com/tags/conspiracy. unavailable. Alien Races Live Among Us But while many, like Page, are left guessing about the true nature of the Venusians and other alien species, past or present, it remains for the now 91-year old Hellyer to fill us in on the real details. Back in the decade of the 60s, the ex-Minister of Defense claims that one group of extraterrestrials, known as the “Tall Whites,” was actually working with the United States Air Force out at the Groom Lake Area 51 facility in Nevada. These beings were frequently known to have passed for humans in public, often allowed to depart the base and visit Las Vegas.17 During the interview for Russian television, Hellyer elaborated on the alien presence here on Earth: “Apollo astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, who came to Toronto a few years ago and had with dinner with us agreed there were something around two and twelve (active alien species here on Earth), but the latest reports that I’ve been getting from various sources are that there are about 80 different species and some of them look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one. They are what we call ‘Nordic Blondes’ and also the ‘Tall Whites’ who were actually working with the U. S. Air Force in Nevada. They’re able to get away with that; they had a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns go into Las Vegas to shop and they weren’t detected. I have a friend who saw one of the men walking along the street. He is somebody who can recognize that they were different, and he did. Then there’s the ‘Short Grays,’ as they are called; and they are the ones you see in most of the cartoons, they have very, very slim arms and legs; they are very short, just a little over five feet, and they have a great big head and great big brown eyes. But, there are different species…. If you saw the Short Grays you’d certainly know there’s something up that you’ve never seen before; but if you saw one of the Nordic Blondes, you’d probably say, ‘Oh I wonder if she’s from Denmark or somewhere.’” 17
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This celestial sphere should not be confused with the Andromeda Galaxy. “It we down at least one more UFO we’ll be facing an interstellar war….,” RT Question More, TV-Novosti, Russian Federation, 18 August 2014 (rerun), http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/137959-anadaminister-defense-ufo/ (Accessed 21 March 2015) 20 McCormack
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Among the leadership of the Federation members, however, it is the Venusian Hierarchy of Light that most worries about environmental devastation here on Earth, for once upon a time in the remote past their own world went through a similar catastrophic phase. A Dire History Lesson In the Russian interview, Hellyer told Sophie that the extraterrestrials have talked to select people. Declared the defense minister, “One of the chaps I’ve talked with about a month ago was interacting with them in 1974- he and his brother- in Peru. They were taken to Andromeda (the Saturnian moon), teleported.21 They were told what people there think and that we’re really wrecking our planet; and, in fact, that something dreadful is going to happen to it if we don’t smarten up and change our ways….” The Andromedans then went on to decry the militarization of our society, our wretched health care system and our substandard treatment of the poor among us. But when asked if he had ever even seen a flying saucer himself, the former defense minister sounded slightly less convincing. When describing his own experience with UFOs, he stated that, “Yes, I’ve seen one,” but qualified the remark by adding that, “but it just looks like a star.” OK, so maybe every light seen traversing the sky is not an alien spacecraft; but some may very well be. Hellyer also interjected that, “Well, the Star of Bethlehem is one of God’s flying saucers.” According to United States Air Force UFO archives, its Project Sign and Project Bluebook personnel thoroughly investigated a whopping 12,618 sightings of strange aerial phenomena between 1947 and 1969, of which 701 remained classified as truly “unidentified,” exactly 18%. While less than one percent of the UFO reports involved occupant sightings, the majority consisted of small, twinkling, star-like objects in both the day and night sky. One of 21
Fans of science fiction are familiar with the concept of teleportation, first popularized in the movie, The Fly (20th Century Fox, 1958), and later in the Star Trek television series (CBS, 1966-1969). And if you’ve seen any episodes of Star Trek, in any of various incarnations over the past five decades, than you have a good idea of just how the process of teleportation should be carried out, versus The Fly, which pinpoints some of its inherent hazards. If it were actually realized by humans, this amazing technology would make it possible to travel vast distances without physically crossing the space between Point A and Point B. Theoretically, at least, transportation will become instantaneous throughout the universe. That a more scientifically advanced civilization in outer space, like Hellyer’s referenced Adromedans, would have such god-like power at their disposal, to transport themselves effortlessly through teleportation, may not be something that needs be relegated to the realm of science fiction, however; for right here on Earth scientists have been working feverishly since 1993 to advance this concept into some semblance phase of reality. It was in that fateful year that physicist Charles Bennett and a team of researchers at the International Business Machines Corporation confirmed that quantum teleportation was possible. It should be noted that at this point there remains a glitch, for Bennett and his team have determined that operative teleportation will only occur if the original object being teleported is destroyed. This is necessary because the very act of scanning an object disrupts the original to such an extent that the perfect copy must replace it, hence becoming the new original item. This startling revelation was first announced by Bennett at an annual meeting of the American Physical Society in March 1993. It was followed by a report on his findings in the 29 March 1993 issue of Physical Review Letters. But since the publication of this scientific journal article, experiments using photons have proven that quantum teleportation is, in fact, possible. In fact, the investigative work in this burgeoning field continues today as researchers combine elements of quantum physics, telecommunications and transportation in some amazing ways. More about actual teleportation experiments can be found in Kevin Bonsor and Robert Lamb, “How Teleportation Will Work,” How Stuff Works, InfoSpace, LLC, 2015, http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/ everyday-myths/teleportation3.htm (Accessed 20 April 2015). While the Andromedans, Venusians and others in the Federation no doubt have perfected the power of teleportation in that the original need not be destroyed, it should be noted that it becomes more precarious over greater distances as there is more of a potential for the transfer beam to encounter physical and/or static cluttering between the transmission and receptor point. As in Star Trek, the extraterrestrials most likely employ teleportation from orbit to surface or vice-versa and only between worlds in our solar system in cases of emergency. For transport within planetary atmospheres, they still largely rely on personal orbs or scout ships.
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Raymond Andrew Keller II those accounts, so determined to be unexplainable, and hence “unidentified,” took place at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1950. There, an Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent reported “a star-like craft that shifted from a bright white color to red and green as it moved erratically in several directions.”22 The witness in this case was of the highest character and his testimony unimpeachable. The Air Force could not explain the sighting in terms of our conventional science. And does it seem all that impossible, as Hellyer believes, that the Star of Bethlehem was really a flying saucer sent from God to announce the birth of His Only Begotten Son? Take special note of the Rev. Billy Graham’s astute comments on angels and UFOs: “Our solar system is just one of billions in God’s colossal Creation - and I find it very hard to believe He would have created only one living planet, Earth.” The famous televangelist also declared in an exclusive interview that, “I firmly believe there is intelligent life in outer space - beings who probably look very much like the average American.” And speaking for the first time ever about his belief in extra-terrestrial life, Rev. Graham additionally asserted that: 1. Outer space beings have the capability to visit Earth - but would come in peace; 2. They worship God, just as we do. 3. They hold the solutions for many of Earth’s problems. No doubt, the American spiritual giant has conducted extensive discussions on these matters with astronauts and other personnel attached to the space program. But it was more than these interviews that helped form the considered opinions of the Rev. Billy Graham with respect to the UFO presence on Earth. He clearly bases these startling conclusions in accordance with his own deeply-felt religious beliefs. The following is a compendium of some of Rev. Graham’s more pertinent statements: “I feel they have developed space vehicles capable of reaching Earth. I don’t believe that all reported UFO sightings can be dismissed as mere figments of the imagination. Without doubt, there have been legitimate sightings of flying objects which cannot be explained.” “I’ve discovered that many of America’s top scientists and astronauts - who are actively investigating the question of extraterrestrial life - share my view. I firmly believe there are intelligent beings like us far away in space who worship God. But we would have nothing to fear from meeting these people. Like us, they are God’s creation. And if we should eventually make contact with these civilizations, it would be one of the biggest breakthroughs in the history of mankind. It’s mind-boggling to imagine how much we could learn from them. They’re probably at least as advanced as us, and possibly more advanced - which means they may have found the answers for many of the problems we face on Earth. Disease, war, environmental pollution may be nonexistent on these other living planets.” “But my biggest hope would be that they are from loving, caring societies who are at peace with God and free from sin. I see no reason why other planets should be cursed with the riots, demonstrations, wars and rebellions which threaten the future of our civilization.” Of course, in many science fiction novels and Hollywood theatrical productions, the extraterrestrials are constantly depicted as bizarre and grotesque creatures. Fortunately, the Rev. Graham does not believe that is the case: “I feel they probably look just like you and me. And just like us, they are anxious to know more about life in other parts of God’s great universe.” 22
Matt Farley, “Project Bluebook: “Website Releases Real ‘X-Files’ Compiled by Government,” report filed for Fox 31 Television, Denver, Colorado, Tribune Broadcasting, 19 January 2015.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure The most famous of televangelists added that, “From my studies of the Scriptures, I can find nothing that would change our faith in the Gospel if we discover life on other planets. And our society would benefit greatly by the discovery - we would have everything to gain!”23 Rev. Graham also acknowledges that many are turning to the supernatural for an explanation of the UFO phenomenon: “Some reputable scientists deny and others assert that UFOs do appear to people from time to time. Some scientists have reached the place where they think they can prove that these are possibly visitors from outer space. Some Christian writers have speculated that UFOs could very well be a part of God’s angelic host who preside over the physical affairs of universal creation. While we cannot assert such a view with certainty, many people are now seeking some type of supernatural explanation for these phenomena. Nothing can hide the fact, however, that these unexplained events are occurring with greater frequency.”24 Therefore, it would seem that such an inclusion of a supernatural explanation would place the existence of other planets populated with advanced forms of life outside the sphere of our physical universe, into the realm of the spiritual. In other words, some of the worlds where the UFOs originate may exist in dimensions outside our space-time continuum. This is a view consistent with standard Christian theology, as well as the more esoteric traditions of Eastern philosophy. Insofar as the history of Venus is concerned, Taiwan’s Supreme Master Ching Hai commented in August 2013 that once upon a time in our own third dimensional plane of existence, the second planet was once very much like our own world, a beautiful paradise resplendent with rich oceans, clean air and fertile forests teeming with colorful, precious birds and animal life. This is a subject very dear to the heart of the Supreme Master Ching Hai, who has frequently taken the opportunity to speak about the existence of life on other planets and of various civilizations peppered throughout our Milky Way Galaxy. Over time, it has been sufficiently demonstrated that her intimate knowledge of our solar system’s planets of Mars and Venus parallels the longstanding philosophical and scientific views advanced about these celestial spheres. Before answering any questions submitted by the ministry’s staff, however, the Supreme Master Ching Hai enters into a “period of profound meditation” where she can trace back billions of years to search the Omniverse for detailed information about the events that transpired so long about on our neighboring worlds. During various video conferences, the Supreme Master Ching Hai humbly expresses her deepest gratitude to both the Elders of Mars and the Goddess of the Galaxy Record on Venus for providing her with this extremely valuable historical information. She is also sincerely appreciative of the courageous scientists who come forward with information they have garnered about the Omniverse, even at the expense of their careers, in order to equip we, the public, with all the knowledge we need to overcome the problems threatening our fragile environment in these critical times. The Supreme Master Ching Hai, also known as the “Suma,” was born on 12 May 1950. She attained notoriety as the spiritual guru to some 20,000 adherents worldwide of the Quan Yin Method. This is a meditation technique based on light and sound. Suma Ching Hai is also a self-published writer and serves as the chief operating officer of the Supreme Ching Hai International Association. Besides providing spiritual guidance and illumination for its members, this association manages the Suma’s worldwide interests in fashion boutiques, jewelry shops and restaurants. 23 24
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Raymond Andrew Keller II The Suma Ching Hai was actually born as Hue Dang Trinh in the Quang Ngãi Province in Vietnam. Her mother was Vietnamese and her father ethnic Chinese. At the age of 19, she was working closely in her small village with a German doctor and scientist serving there as a relief worker. He persuaded young Hue Dang to follow him back to Germany, where she married the doctor and assisted him as a Red Cross interpreter. By 1971, however, Hue Dang found herself in a period of spiritual desolation and unhappy in her marriage. She divorced her husband and began a quest for spiritual enlightenment, traveling the whole world. In eight years she thought she finally found her guru to lead her on the path of light. He was a Buddhist monk in a German monestary. But as the monestary’s administration would not tolerate the presence of any female in their midst, the still spiritually thirsting Hue Dang found herself in the desert of spiritual wanting once again. Finding Christianity to be somewhat superficial when gauged against the older and deeper religions of the East, Hue Dang turned her attention to India, a land which had always held a long fascination for her. Soon she found herself smack dab in the middle of India and desirous to study comparative religion there. In this process, she became a disciple of Thakar Singh, stayed at his ashram and learned the Sant Mat mediation technique of light and sound therapeutic applications. Eventually, she would adopt this meditation process as her own, just slightly modifying it. She called her application of this technique the Quan Yin Method and from then on won thousands of adherents worldwide. So what did the Suma learn about the Venusians? What they could they possibly want with us? Well, the Suma highly recommends that the Earth’s inhabitants refrain from raising animals for food. She said this would be the first step in opening our hearts to the loving lifestyle and moral, spiritual path offered by the Venusian Masters. “The civilization of Earth,” she said, “can advance further and faster once her citizens become compassionate and kind to our own co-inhabitants (the animals) and the other beings in the universe.” Here is a dialogue of the Suma with some of her disciples: Question (Q): Master, scientists reported that billions of years ago our neighboring planet Venus could have had oceans like Earth, but they dried up, partly because Venus was so close to the Sun. Still, the presence of water could mean that there was physical life there, and scientists believe today that there is microbial life. Was Venus ever like Earth, sustaining life? Master (M): Yes, yes, it was. Yes. It was once a beautiful planet, and now it’s no more. There’s no life up there at all, not life as we know it. It’s a pity. Q. The beings that were there before, did they look like us? M. Yes, they did look like us. Q. Did Venus ever have a landscape similar to Earth, with thriving life and green hills, blue seas, or did it have a different landscape? M. Yes, yes, they had similar. Our neighboring planets like Venus and Mars had a similar landscape. Some were more strikingly exquisite, more beautiful. Long ago, Mars and Venus were once a lot like our planet. They had water, life, and people similar to us. There were four Venuses in our solar system.25 They are so named because they’re all similar, yes? Similar in size, similar landscape, similar beauty, they call them all Venuses. Two of them were destroyed. And now, we still have two more Venuses 25
Keller, Venus Rising, 160. N. Meade Layne of the Borderland Sciences Research Association of San Diego, California, first posited the existence of two Venuses in our solar system inhabited by highly advanced civilizations back in the late 1940s. These Venuses remained unseen to our scientists because they could only be found in the ultra-dimensional region of Etheria.
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The Supreme Master Ching Hai enlightens her followers about advanced life forms on the two ultradimensional Venuses in our solar system. See http://www. godsdirectcontact.org/eng/article/chinghai. html.
which are very beautiful, much more advanced in technology than our planet. Q. Japan’s ex-First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama has written a book entitled, Most Bizarre Things I’ve Encountered, where she revealed her travel to Venus. And she mentioned in interviews that her spirit flew on a triangular-shaped UFO to Venus. It was an extremely beautiful place and was very green. M. I’m very glad that the First Lady courageously did this, because coming from her, people might believe it more than if it came from you, me, for example.26
Behind the “Bamboo Curtain” 1984 marked a significant year in the ever-evolving United States policy toward the People’s Republic of China. On 26 April1984, President Ronald Reagan arrived in China for a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Li Xiannian. This was the second time a United States president had traveled to China. President Richard Nixon was the first to travel there in 1972. The first lady, Nancy Reagan, accompanied her husband on the historic trip, together with some 600 journalists, a contingent of Secret Service agents and, according to various reports from the British Broadcasting Corporation, officials who guard the codes for launching nuclear missiles. The Reagans toured many cultural and historical sites in Beijing and the surrounding area, and also attended a dinner in their honor hosted by President Xiannian. The importance of President Reagan’s trip served to underscore his administration’s desire to improve diplomacy with China in light of the growing economic relationship between the two superpowers. But economics and trade were not the only issues discussed by the two world leaders. Other topics of mutual interest between the two leaders over the course of the six-day trip included the development of commercial nuclear power in China, in addition to the Xiannian administration’s displeasure with continuing United States support for the Nationalist regime entrenched in the small island Republic of Taiwan, just off the southeast coast of the People’s Republic. But what about UFO research in the People’s Republic of China? What were the Communist Chinese authorities hiding about what they really knew about the origins of the elusive flying saucers? Inquiring minds in the United States wanted some answers to these pertinent questions. And apparently the Reagan administration was, behind the scenes at least, applying some degree of pressure for the Communist Chinese government to come clean about some of the incredible secrets of paranormal phenomenon that their officials had previously locked behind the “bamboo curtain.” Nevertheless, and due largely to national security interests in both of the countries concerned, we may never really know what kind of deal that Presidents Reagan and Xiannian arrived at. But within one week following President Reagan’s historic trip, China’s most touted authority on UFOs and all things paranormal, Paul Dong, came out 26
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Raymond Andrew Keller II with his blockbuster book, Four Major Mysteries of Mainland China (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall). After the Communists seized power in China in 1949, successive American presidents continually refused to recognize the government of the People’s Republic, but supported instead the pro-democratic Nationalists that had been exiled to the island of Taiwan. Naturally, during the Cold War hysteria of the early 1950s, United States support for Taiwan included the sales of arms. But this action infuriated the Communist government in Beijing. So it wasn’t until President Nixon made tentative diplomatic overtures to China in 1969 and, in October 1970, told a Time reporter that, “If there’s anything I want to do before I die, it’s go to China.” The rest is history. The conservative Republican president Nixon led the United States government in officially recognizing the Communist Chinese government, and as a result, became the first American president to visit China one year later. But it was not until 1984 that another president, Reagan, would travel to China in an attempt to resolve remaining diplomatic, economic and other remaining differences. Throughout his week-long trip, President Reagan impressed the Chinese Communist Party dignitaries and officials with his ability to speak a little Mandarin. Much progress was made across an array of persisting issues dividing the two superpowers, although when it came to the matter of Taiwan, there still remained some difference of opinion. But in getting back to the concerns about UFOs and other paranormal phenomena, it may be more than mere coincidence that Dong’s book was released in the United States one day before Reagan returned to touchdown back on United States soil. In an undated letter to Gray Barker, soliciting the West Virginia ufologist’s aid in promoting the book, the noted Chinese paranormal researcher explained that he wrote Four Major Mysteries because, “In Mainland China there is a tremendous public interest and vigorous scientific research that centers of four paranormal phenomena: 1) UFOs (Chinese publications carry many UFO reports); 2) Exceptional Human Functions (the Chinese term for psychic abilities); 3) Bigfoot (Yes, there is a Chinese Bigfoot); and Qi Gong (An ancient deep-breathing technique that is said to develop paranormal abilities in people).” The book includes an introduction by the former United States Air Force Project Bluebook technical consultant on UFO sightings, Dr. J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986), an astronomer from Northwestern University in Illinois, just outside Chicago. So right away we understand that the author has a high level of credibility. Of Paul Dong himself, he is widely recognized as an international and professional journalist, as well as an expert on the Qi Gong technique and most matters of a metaphysical nature. He has served as the editor of the Beijing based Journal of UFO Research. Many of his articles have appeared in Omni, the prominent science magazine, and other prestigious periodicals around the globe. As Dong tells it, “Word of these Chinese mysteries has reached the West only in small news articles and largely obscure journals;” adding that, “I have been in a unique position to gather extensive information on all these phenomena. I have interviews with eyewitnesses and scientists in China, along with scientific reports, photographs, Chinese newspaper articles and other data that tell the full story.” In other words, Dong wrote the blockbuster book precisely because he wanted to reveal to the Western World for the first time what was really going on in China. His enthralling book served to penetrate the Communist wall of secrecy that had been in place since 1949. Dong declares that UFOs have been sighted over China since ancient times; and that from the period of 1974-1984 there were more than 30,000 well-documented sightings that poured 21
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure in from all corners of his vast homeland encompassing an area approximately the same size as the lower 48 of the United States. In his book, Dong wrote to Barker that, in his estimation, UFOs were the “first mystery” that needed further investigation in China. He discussed the rise of UFO research in the People’s Republic in addition to the strategy that needed to be followed in breaking through the barriers to further UFO investigation. And we aren’t alone in facing the so-called Silence Group. Dong reports that Chinese UFO observers have also been quieted by the notorious agents known as the “Men in Black.” The international journalist also comments on the UFO fever catching hold throughout China, in addition to some of the more “shocking” reports, delving into UFO research and cases in Hong Kong, Macao, and even Taiwan. What is most surprising to me is even though most citizens of the People’s Republic of China were extremely limited in where they could travel Dong was permitted to come and go at a whim between Communist China and the United States for decades, and to interview UFO witnesses unencumbered by any restrictions throughout most of his homeland. As far as psychic phenomena, Dong reports on the discovery of child prodigies within the People’s Republic and their culling by the government for the development of a psychic contingent working on behalf of Chinese security interests in sundry top secret programs. He also discusses the dramatic rise of public interest in the powers so long latent in humankind but only now emerging. And he relates the development of proper breathing control to the development of extrasensory powers in any given individual. And for those Bigfoot investigators, Dong informs us about China’s so-called “Wild Man” and his assorted activities in Asia since the beginnings of recorded history. Dong tells about Dr. Zhou Gouxing and his Wild Man Research Team, how they have searched and continue to search for this elusive creature in every nook and cranny of the People’s Republic of China. Preparing for the Mass Landings While the Venusians and other celestials continue to impart significant information about the history of our world and its cosmic neighbors (other planets in our solar system and beyond) to select channels like the Supreme Master Ching Hai, many on Earth continue to wonder why there have been no mass landings here. As early as the mid-1950s, Joseph C. Ghoul, a regular feature writer for James Moseley’s Nexus flying saucer magazine, attempted to answer this very question. Ghoul took the position that the existence of flying saucers had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, even as early as the beginning of the 1950s. But, he declared that, “the accounts of actual landings are too few and too questionable to convince me that creatures from another planet have as yet been seen walking on this Earth.” While Ghoul recognized that he could be mistaken in his opinion, he nevertheless asks the reader to just assume that there have been no landings to date; and examine the reasons that might tend to support that view. “In the first place,” Ghoul writes, “almost every alleged landing has involved space creatures that are said to look a great deal like we do.” He adds that “Orthodox science,” so-called, “currently agrees that millions of stars probably have solar systems, and that there must be many, many planets in the universe capable of supporting intelligent life. But as to what this intelligent life looks like, scientists will not even hazard a guess. However, the few saucer-minded scientists I have talked to agree with me that the chances against creatures from another planet looking much like we do are ‘a million to one.’”
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Raymond Andrew Keller II In Ghoul’s estimation, this should be obvious, at least insofar as great physical differences exist among all the inhabitants of Earth. Even minor differentiations in climate and environment on our world have served to engender the rise of various races, albeit the construct of race is actually more of a social than a physiological one. On other planets, where temperature, pressure and chemical composition similar to our own, life might evolve in a manner not dissimilar to the life found here. “But” -and this is a big but- Ghoul takes note that, “unless conditions on that planet (any given Earth-like example) were nearly identical to ours, there could not be much chance of finding people there even as much like us as ‘little green men.’ And even on an identical planet, evolution might fool us and take an entirely different course than it did here.” The first generation ufologist also wondered from what planet, or type of planet, the flying saucers might be coming from. So until we know the answer to that question, Ghoul surmises, “it is reasonable to assume that they (the ETs) come from one or more of the planets extremely unlike our own, rather than from one of the comparatively few that might be very much like ours.” And with regard to Mars and Venus, the two most probable abodes of life beyond the Earth in our solar system, Ghoul states that, “the chances of their being at all like us are even less, since the chances of two planets in the same solar system having nearly identical conditions are very slim indeed.” So even if there were “little green men” walking around on our Earth without the immediate benefit of a space suit or its equivalent, Ghoul feels quite sure that such ET visitors would quickly die if they even stepped out of their spacecraft without some sort of atmospheric, pressure and temperature compensation devices. And then there is the issue of motives, or lack thereof for the space people to execute mass landings here on Earth. Why would they want to land and exit their saucers? And more importantly, what would they have to gain from contact with us? It is here where the research of Charles Fort27 and Desmond Leslie28 seem to prove that our Earth has been under constant surveillance by ET intelligences for hundreds, if not thousands of years. But why should the aliens suddenly abandon their safe surveillance program from afar in exchange for landing and communicating with us now? To preface an answer to these questions, Ghoul states that, “Their civilization is obviously so far advanced that they could learn nothing from us. A real landing by a flying saucer would quickly show us Earthlings up as the barbarians we really are. Those people who didn’t try to tear the space visitors to pieces would try to pry out of them the secrets of their advanced science.” But despite the poor assessment of the human race, it appears that the ETs still maintain a strident interest in our species and our activities down here on Earth. This is evident in their many uninterrupted years in conducting observations of our planet. Nevertheless, Ghoul further writes that, “They have no desire to interfere in human affairs in any way. If they 27
Charles H. Fort, Book of the Damned (New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1919) _____New Lands (New York: Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1923) _____Lo! (New York: Claude Kendall, 1931) _____Wild Talents (New York: Claude Kendall, 1932) Charles Hoy Fort was an American writer and researcher into sundry paranormal phenomena. Today, the terms Fortean and Forteana are used to characterize such phenomena. Even in 2015, his books continue to be printed and sell quite well. 28 George Adamski and Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed (London: Werner Laurie, 1953). Desmond Arthur Peter Leslie was a British film maker, pilot, musician and writer. He was of English, Irish and Scottish descent, as well as the second cousin to Winston Churchill. He was a lifelong student of the paranormal, spiritualism, and space research. He and Adamski’s Flying Saucers Have Landed significantly impacted the course followed by ufology in the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Raymond Andrew Keller II on a local ethnic station on the FM band,29 mostly playing East European music, and could be heard throughout the Metropolitan Cleveland, Ohio, area. On this particular night of the CUP meeting, however, there was quite a record-breaking snow storm throughout northeast Ohio, so Mike and I were surprised to see such a big turnout. Nevertheless, it was one of the more memorable CUP meetings, to be sure, and well worth the peril of driving through blizzard conditions in order to attend it. The organization’s highly respected and beloved director, Earl J. Neff, a former sketch artist for the real Elliot Ness’ “Untouchables,” was discussing the recent success of the Apollo 8 orbital Moon mission and what NASA wasn’t telling us about what was really going on up there, especially on the dark side of our natural satellite with its alien bases. George King of the Aetherius Society also made a prediction, that received a substantial amount of press coverage, about the end of the world, at least as we knew it, and coming on New Year’s Eve. This was just ten days off; so Neff tried to ally the fears of some CUP members who were starting to go into a panic mode. The CUP director said, “I don’t put too much stock in King’s prediction, or the Aetherius Society, for that matter. But like every other cult leader predicting the end of the world, King will probably say that his prayer to the space gods to turn away their wrath was answered when the doomsday never turns up as scheduled.” The CUP meetings back then were held in the basement of a suburban Parma, Ohio, savings and loan; and following the meeting Neff and the other members would linger for about half an hour and socialize over coffee and donuts before heading home or over to a nearby restaurant to socialize even more. It was in the socializing period following the public meeting that Michael had made a comment about just returning from a visit to some friends in the Toronto, Ontario, area, relating some of the highlights of his trip. He mentioned that he visited a special book shop in Toronto where he able to pick up some rare editions of UFO books. I asked him if he had an opportunity to meet with Gene Duplantier while he was up there. Gene was the editor of Canada’s leading UFO publication, Saucers, Space and Science, and exchanged copies of it with me for issues of the Flying Saucer Report, that I co-edited with Alan T. Weston, a reporter for the Maple Heights Press. Mike said that he didn’t have enough time to take a detour out to Willowdale, a suburb of Toronto, where Gene lived, but that he would certainly try and meet him on the next trip, perhaps recording an interview for broadcast on his radio program. Neff was talking with Norm Bedford, a specialist on Soviet ufology and the Tunguska meteor event, and Bob Reese, the editor of the CUP Newsletter and employee of NASA’s Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, over in a corner by the coffee urn. These were the counselors to Neff who helped him keep CUP relevant and operational at many levels. They were probably talking about the “secret military space program,” that Neff had mentioned earlier in the actual Earl J. Neff, depicted here as a young meeting. As Neff was scheduled to do an interview with artist in the 1920s. See http://www.afu.se/ Mike on the emerging FM station’s new paranormal afu2/?page_id=5428. 29
WZAK Radio, 93.1 FM, has since switched programming formats and is now a commercial urban adult contemporary radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio as “Cleveland’s R&B Leader,” which is the station’s slogan.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure broadcast, he walked over in our direction and listened in on the tail end of our conversation about all things Canada. Neff: How good to see you young men, braving all of this inclement weather to attend the CUP meeting. Ray: I wouldn’t miss it for the world. I’d put on snow shoes to get here if I needed to. (Note: At that time, I was driving my first car, a 1964 sky-blue Pontiac Tempest GTO convertible. I’d rather have that car back than any other vehicle, including my personal Venusian orb for traversing the nectar-scented, orange Venusian skies. –Cosmic Ray) Mike: That goes for me, too, Mr. Neff. Wow! That information you conveyed is so powerful. Can we talk about some of that on the radio program? Neff: Sure, Mike, and much more! Mike: Can you tell me a little bit now, or will it be a big surprise for everyone? Neff: Well, boys, I couldn’t help but catching your discussion about Canada: Gene Duplantier, Ray, and your trip to Toronto, Mike. I don’t suppose you’ve heard anything about Wilbert Smith from Shirley’s Bay? Ray: Can’t say that I have. Mike: I seem to recall something about him. Maybe he was mentioned in one of Keyhoe’s books? Neff: Mike, you are partially correct. Wilbert Brockhouse Smith was an electrical and radio engineer that worked his way up into the highest echelons of the Canadian government. He was developing top secret projects confirming the existence of flying saucers as vehicles from other planets and substantially confirming the veracity of Frank Scully’s and Donald E. Keyhoe’s books on UFOs. While Scully detailed the crash of a Venusian scout ship at Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948, it was Keyhoe who exposed the United States government’s ongoing efforts to debunk the subject of UFOs in the eyes of the public. Smith just confirms that these other two were dead on the bull’s eye with the target UFO incidents all along. Mike: That would make for an outstanding radio program, provided we aren’t shut down by the Silence Group before it ever gets on the air. Ray: I hear you, brother. After I read Albert K. Bender’s Flying Saucers and the Three Men,30 I wouldn’t doubt anything the powers-that-be would do to keep this information from the public. With that, arrangements were made to interview Neff in a series of live broadcasts concerning the UFO cover-up, in general, and the work of Wilbert Smith in particular. The following is a gist of questions asked by Michael A. LaRiche to Cleveland ufologist Earl J. Neff, and the answers he responded with, in the conduct of over-theair interviews back in the first few months of 1969: Mike: Mr. Neff, it is a great pleasure to have you as a guest once again on our UFO and paranormal talk program. I know that many of our listeners have seen you, the director of the Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP), at either the monthly CUP meeting or in person as the scheduled speaker at various other groups throughout the the northeast Ohio area. Neff: Thank you, Mike. I’m happy to be here to tell you and your listeners what’s going on in the ufological universe. You can just call me Earl. 30
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Mike: Well, Earl, off air you were telling me about a top secret UFO project taking place on the other side of Lake Erie, or should I say “Eerie,” with that extra E in front of the word? Can you tell our listeners something about this Canadian project? Neff: Yes, Mike. It was called Project Magnet and headed up by the top radio and electrical engineer Wilbert Brockhouse Smith, who unfortunately passed away seven years ago. Anyway, I got it from Donald E. Keyhoe of NICAP, himself, that Smith was in direct radio communication with extraterrestrials on Venus and Mars and received from these scientific data that confirm the existence of flying saucers as interplanetary spacecraft as well as the on-going UFO cover-up in place in our country since the crash of some flying saucers out in Roswell and Aztec, New Mexico, back in 1947 and 1948, respectively. Mike: How does Keyhoe know all of this? Neff: In September 1950, Keyhoe says he flew up to Ottawa for a clandestine meeting with Smith, at Smith’s request. In this private meeting, Smith and Keyhoe addressed various matters pertaining to the flying saucer phenomenon and the possible method of propulsion utilized by these disc-shaped craft. Based on his radio communications with the “Space Brothers,” as he called them, Smith came to learn that they use the magnetic lines of force surrounding the Earth and other celestial bodies in order to electrically propel their ships in the close vicinity of planets, or in planetary atmospheres. Mike: How come this is only coming to light now, nearly 20 years later? Neff: Back in 1950, Keyhoe dearly wanted to write an article about Smith and Canada’s above top secret Project Magnet in True magazine, the same periodical where he introduced the interplanetary origins of the flying saucers and the subsequent UFO cover-up. Smith informed him that he could not permit such an article to come out at the time because it would be “hazardous” to his health, if you catch the drift. “Such an article,” Smith said, “would need the approval of Dr. Omandt Solant, his immediate supervisor at the Canadian Research and Development Board, as well as that of Dr. Vannevar Bush, the director of the United States Department’s Office of Scientific Research and Development.” Of this, Smith seriously doubted that approval was going to be granted on either’s watch. Mike: Vannevar Bush, that sounds like a name I’ve heard before. Neff: Yes, Mike, because of his extensive background in various fields of scientific advancement: atomic energy on the Manhattan Project, computer data processing with differential analysis at Raytheon, aeronautics and astronautics as early as 1938, it is easy to see why he was one of the twelve selected to serve on Majestic 12 (MJ-12), the code name for a super secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 following the Roswell crash by an executive order of President Harry S. Truman to facilitate the recovery and investigation of crashed alien spacecraft. Keyhoe says that the documents he has seen pertaining to Project Magnet confirmed the existence of MJ-12 and Dr. Vannevar Bush’s role in it. Mike: How was it that the Canadian authorities got involved in UFO research, and why did they choose Smith to lead their investigations into this matter? Neff: It all began when Smith wrote a proposal to utilize the facilities of the Department of Transport to study UFOs. After due consideration of the proposal, the project was formally approved on 2 December 1950 on the condition that it was only 27
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure to collect data about flying saucers and apply any recovered data to the development of practical engineering and technology. Most specifically, in this area of engineering new technologies, the Canadian government wanted the project to apply any findings on the subject of electromagnetism to the possibility of exploiting our own planet’s magnetic field as a source of propulsion for advanced aerospace platforms, mimicking the power and maneuverability of the Venusian scout ships, so often reported around the world. Smith put together an outstanding team31 and set up shop on the shores of Shirley’s Bay, about ten miles west of Ottawa on the south side of the river. This is still a highly restricted area, with an observatory and many space and research facilities built there. As to Smith being chosen, he was the scientist who first proposed the program, so who better to direct it? What’s remarkable about this is that they knew Smith was a firm believer in the extraterrestrial and/or ultra-dimensional origin of the flying saucers. That the authorities in the Land of the Maple Leaf did not appoint someone else to this position, someone a little more skeptical, attests to the fact that the Canadian political and military leadership was onboard with Smith and his way of thinking. And Smith was certainly well qualified to fill the directorship of Project Magnet, He held both a bachelor’s in science and master’s in science degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC), specializing in electrical engineering. After graduation from UBC in 1934, he went to work as the chief engineer at radio station CJOR in Vancouver. Mike: How did Smith become involved with the Canadian government? Neff: Smith was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1910. And like all Western Canadians, he was always skeptical about Ottawa’s intentions. Nevertheless, with Hitler’s shadow looming large across the British Isles, in 1939 he joined the Federal Department of Transport. It was in this department that Smith became involved with various engineering projects in the war-time surveillance activities of Nazi radio chatter. By 1947, with World War II two years in the past, he was put in charge of establishing a network of research stations for ionosopheric measurements in isolated areas of the northern territories. So by the time he wrote his proposal, Smith was already an employee of the Department of Transport. In his case, directing Project Magnet would be considered an internal promotion. Mike: Maybe some of his colleagues thought his tour in the far north made him a little off-kilter. Maybe the Department of Transport only approved the financing of his proposal because they wanted to humor him but keep him on their payroll for his scientific expertise in other areas, like weather observation and reporting. Neff: I and Major Keyhoe have heard that said of Smith from various quarters. However, many of those in Canada’s government firmly believed that UFOs, if real, might hold the key to this new source of power. Since Project Magnet started out as just a small-scale undertaking, the project used Department of Transport facilities, with some assistance from personnel at the Defence Research Board (DRB) and the National Research Council. 31
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Mike: What was the Shirley’s Bay station equipped with, and what did the technicians there discover about the flying saucers? Neff: That’s a great question, Mike. In October 1952, Smith set up his observatory at Shirley’s Bay, outside Ottawa, to study reports of flying saucers from all over Canada, and the world, for that matter. This new facility was dubbed by the press as the “world’s first flying saucer sighting station.” It was equipped with an abundance of expensive, highly sensitive equipment, including a gamma ray detector, a magnetometer, several radio receivers, and a gravimeter; with each of these being wired to a graph paper device to record the fluctuations they might find, and an alarm system to alert personnel to any such notable fluctuations. Smith operated from the assumption that UFOs would emit physical characteristics that could be measured. A number of sighting reports were investigated by Project Magnet, but in 1954, the project’s funding was shut off just two days after a unique occurrence transpired at the Shirley’s Bay facility, causing all the equipment to go haywire. After that, Smith was allowed to use the Shirley’s Bay facilities on his own time with his own funding and did so until his death in 1962. Mike: What incident was that, Earl? Neff: At exactly 3:01 in the afternoon of 8 August 1954, the instrumentation at the Shirley’s Bay station registered a most unusual disturbance, quite unlike anything that the equipment there had ever registered before. Smith literally jumped out of his socks, yelling that “The gravimeter went wild!” What it indicated was clearly impossible. There was such a great deflection noted that it could not logically be explained by the conventional interference generated by passing aircraft. Smith and his team raced outside but only viewed a heavy, overcast sky. Smith told his associates, “Well, I guess whatever is up there must be hiding in the clouds.” The only evidence that something out of the ordinary had happened that day was the registering of the deflection on the chart recorder paper. The California Synchronicity At the same time, but out in California, it was only 12:01 p.m. The contactee conference at the Skyline Lodge on the slopes of Mt. Palomar in California, sponsored by George Adamski, was coming to an end. In a grove of trees and down an undulating hill to the west of the lodge’s main parking lot, Brazilian photographer Ed Keffel from O Cruzeiro magazine, at last took some photographs of Dolores Barrios and her posse for publication in the upcoming October issue. But as word got out that the “Venusians were being photographed there,” people who normally would
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure have been getting into their cars or buses to go back home started streaming out of the parking area and down the hill with cameras in hand. At that point, Dolores pulled out of her sweater a small, circular device, looking something like a shiny metallic tennis ball. As she rubbed her thumb over it, a halo of ionized air suddenly formed over their heads as they disappeared into a cloud of light behind the trees and out of sight….32 Lessons Learned In June 1952 Smith issued a preliminary report wherein he concluded that UFOs most likely came from intelligent, extraterrestrial sources and almost certainly manipulated electromagnetic forces for their transportation. In the following year, Smith reiterated these conclusions in yet another report. In April 1952, the Canadian government established Project Second Storey, a parallel UFO research project with which Smith was also involved. It consisted of a group of scientists and military officers who met periodically to consider the UFO question and to recommend possible options for the Canadian government to move on. Smith informed Second Storey personnel on some of Project Magnet’s findings and conclusions. In addition, Smith came to believe that the UFO phenomenon was linked to psychic and supernatural phenomena. He also came to believe that he was in contact with extraterrestrial beings that communicated to him via telepathy. Smith wrote a number of articles for Topside, the publication of the Ottawa New Sciences Club, a group which he founded. The Topside articles outlined the philosophy of the “Space Brothers” that he claimed to be in contact with. The articles were later collected by Gray Barker and published posthumously in 1969 under the title The Boys from Topside (Clarksburg, West Virginia: Saucerian Press).
Iconography depicts the ascension of Elijah the prophet. He is encased in a flying orb and accompanied by angels. The four horses powering the orb may be emblematic of some magic source. See https://www. pinterest.com/palex1950/elijah-and-thechariot-of-fire/.
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Important safety note: In addition to all of the above, this author should add, “Don’t mess with the Queen Bee!” She grows stronger every day, never ages, and the power she wields on Earth is nearly limitless.
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Chapter 2: The Cosmic Evolutionary Process
Look out. The Cat Queen can scratch you! See http://www.lovelonglong.com/cat-queen-design-10-pieces-3271.
An alien encounter of the “purrrrfect kind” Simon Parkes, a British city councilor from Stakesby, has previously joined the former Canadian defence minister in claiming aliens exist and visit Earth. Parkes told the Northern Echo that he has fathered a child with an alien. In fact, Parkes says he has sex with an extraterrestrial he calls the “Cat Queen” four times a year. In case you’re wondering, the kid’s name is Zarka. Unsurprisingly, Parkes says the relationship has put some strain on his marriage with his human wife. —Report from Zoe Mintz, International Business Times (U.S. edition), 18 June 2013 Explaining the Evolutionary Process Both religion and science can be viewed as ways of knowing and understanding. However, science is a way of knowing that differs from religion in that it relies on the accumulation of empirical evidence and testable explanations. Of course, the two disciplines are concerned with the origin of life on this planet, with the religionists maintaining that God created it and placed it here, while the scientists continue to assert that it simply emerged from a gradual process of evolution spanning countless millennia. But to the critical thinker, her or his acceptance of the 32
Raymond Andrew Keller II evidence for evolution need not be incompatible with their religious faith. There are numerous religious denominations that officially accept biological evolution as more than a mere theory. Their leaders have come forward to proclaim that the process of biological evolution has served to produce the diversity of living organisms over the billions of years of Earth’s history. Many of these religionists have even issued statements declaring that, in their opinion at least, evolution and the tenets of their respective religions are truly compatible. There is a class of contemporary theologians who have come forward with some in the scientific community in writing eloquently about their awe and wonder at the history of the universe and of life on Earth. And in the process of doing so, they have explained that they see no conflict between their faith in God and the near overwhelming evidence for evolution. Those in denominations that refuse to accept the occurrence of evolution tend to be those that adhere to the literal interpretations of the Bible and other religious texts. Nevertheless, the seeker of truth must keep in mind that religion and science are based on different aspects of the human experience. In science, for example, explanations need to be based on the evidence drawn from examining the natural world. This means that scientifically based observations or experiments that conflict with any previously accepted explanation will eventually lead to a modification or even abandonment of said explanation. On the other hand, religious faith does not require a reliance on empirical evidence; and it is not necessary to modify it in the face of any conflicting evidence. Typically, any religious concepts must involve and take into account sundry supernatural entities or forces. But because they are not a part of the natural world, such supernatural entities cannot be investigated by science. And it is in this sense that religion and science are to be considered as separate disciplines; for while they address the same aspects of any particular phenomenon, they observe and analyze it from widely varied degrees of human understanding.33 The quasi-religious nature of the UFO phenomenon, however, has led to the confluence of angels and aliens in the minds of many paranormal researchers. And after the publication of Venus Rising, a book that extensively examines the intelligences inhabiting Venus through the “Objects” of Theosophy, many investigators have approached me in the ufology community asking if I thought the Venusians and other visitors to our skies were some sorts of evangelists, coming here to put us on the “straight and narrow path.” Of course, in our world an evangelist is defined as a person who preaches the four gospels of the Christian religion. So while our visitors also recognize the divine essence of Jesus Christ, I would not go so far as to affirm that they are here in the capacities of evangelists or missionaries, at least in their primary capacity. Once upon a time, when Brinsley Le Poer Trench, the Chairman of Contact International, was asked a similar question, he replied that it was his considered opinion that, “They are not coming here to ram anything down anyone’s throat or to force their ideas upon us. The idea would be abhorrent to them.”34 Moreover, the astute chairman further elaborated, maintaining that the visitors’ “long standing interest in us stems from the fact that they ‘colonized’ us thousands of years ago.” As one who has communicated directly with the Venusians, I would heartily concur with Trench’s analysis of the situation, but I might choose an alternative word for “colonize,” insofar as it carries too much nefarious political baggage in the context of human history and the relationships that have developed over the past few centuries on our 33
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure planet between the developed nations (the “haves”) and the developing/emerging ones (the “haves not”). There is an enormous amount of circumstantial evidence to support Trench’s contentions. Associate paranormal investigator and “UFO experiencer” Krsanna Duran of Atlantis Phoenix Publications of Missoula, Montana, herself a Native American and advocate for the rights of indigenous people, is currently researching our human star ancestors and has compiled legends from all over the world telling of “sky people” coming down to Earth and mingling with our forebears, thus infusing our genes with alien DNA. Duran has made it her life’s work to document accounts of extraterrestrial visitations from the legends of the peoples of the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks, Hawaiians, Inca, Irish, Japanese, Mesoamerica, North American Indians, Scandinavians and many others. While Duran would be the first to admit that these accounts all stem from folk-lore, legends and mythology, she aptly remarks that, “When so many of such diverse ethnic backgrounds and history are recounting similar stories, it goes far beyond mere coincidence.”35 Of course, most are familiar with the account of alleged “ancient astronauts” as it appears in Genesis 6:1-4 (KJV), the first book of the Old Testament in the Holy Bible: “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the Earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” In light of this Biblical revelation, Trench speculates that, “If the sky people have periodically mated with Earth people to hasten mankind’s evolution, the brain capacity of sky people must be far superior to that of Earth men,” more specifically noting that, “The sky people must have a brain capacity of at least 3,000 c.c. compared with a human’s 1,300 c.c. today. A breeding program between sky people and earlier ape men with about 800 c.c. capacity would have produced the middle-way brain of modern man.”36 So if Trench is right, the Bible’s ranking of man as being created higher than the animals but lower than angels is only too true. The chairman, also a former editor of Britain’s highly acclaimed Flying Saucer Review, believes that the extraterrestrials have seeded and reseeded this planet on numerous occasions throughout our long history, and continue to do so today. He cites the Brazilian case of Antonio Villas Boas as support for this latter contention. Villas Boas, a humble farmer, informed investigators from the former Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) of Tucson, Arizona, that he experienced a sexual encounter with an extraterrestrial woman, possibly from Venus or Saturn, onboard a flying saucer that one night had landed in his field. The details of this case appear in the chapter, “Closer Encounters” in Venus Rising. In any event, Trench speculates that perhaps the long-range plan of the extraterrestrials is to, “bring humanity to a stage nearer their own mental capacity, so that we will be able on day to take our places in a galactic civilization.” 35
Krsanna and I first came into contact with each other only recently through the auspices of Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a professor emeritus of the University of Wyoming at Laramie. It turns out that we were researching along parallel lines of investigation, all the while keeping a focus on the work of Helena Blavatsky and the foundations of Theosophy. In the book she was writing before we met, there were nine references to the planet Venus and its attachment to these legends of ancient peoples. 36 Trench
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Therefore, one can surmise the great interest that the alien visitors have in overseeing our celestial development. Most likely, they have been able to unobtrusively interject a philosophical or scientific idea or two to aid us in our intellectual pursuits and thus spur us on to higher degrees of enlightenment. Trench also believes in the existence of an interplanetary non-interference directive as originating from the Hierarchy of Light with regard to human history. In the referenced UFO Mirror/Space Drive editorial, Trench writes, “I think it is a cosmic law for them not to interfere unduly in our growth. We have to learn the ‘hard way’ and as Rex Dutta37 so aptly put it, ‘on our own flat feet.’”38 By learning the “hard way,” no doubt Trench was referring to the many ancient civilizations on Earth that were wiped out through the errors of human beings and their misuse of vast technological power. The lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria quickly come to mind. Once again, we have reached the cross-roads with our dangerous misapplication of science, creating a technology of death that now hangs over our heads like a sword of Damocles. Unfortunately, most humans have failed to find a mature, spiritual path to walk. Hence, they lack the wisdom necessary to properly apply scientific principles for the advancement of all humankind. To Trench, the choice is clear. He pens that, “Either our civilization will go down once again in a nuclear holocaust- the prophesied Armageddon- or we will eventually enter a golden age when the planet has been cleansed of all its impurities, taking our place in a galactic civilization along with our friends, the sky people.” Trench, of distinguished British peerage,39 was cognizant that since 1947 humankind had reached the “point-of-no-return.” It has become apparent that the Venusians and other extraterrestrials have sent fleets of spacecraft to the Earth, performing operations with these vehicles in our air space far beyond the capacities of our own aircraft and contemporary levels of acquired scientific knowledge. In other words, the alien technology seems like pure “magic,” 37
Dutta was well-known for an incident that occurred in 1971, when he was the guest on a radio phone-in show about flying saucers. A voice from Venus, identifying himself as a member of the Ashtar Command, took over the transmitters and they talked about planet Earth. A full transcript of the conversation was published in his 1972 book, Flying Saucer Message (London, UK: Pelham, 1972), and later in other esoteric and Theosophical publications. 38 Trench 39 William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, last edited entry, 12 March 2012, The Peerage: A Genealogical Survey of the Peerage of Britain…., http://www.thepeerage.com/p7196.htm (Accessed 6 September 2015): “M, #71960, b. 18 September 1911, d. 18 May 1995; He was the son of William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty and Mary Gwatkin Ellis. He married, firstly, Diana Joan Younger, daughter of Sir William Robert Younger, 2nd Bt. and Joan Gwendoline Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, on 6 June 1940. He and Diana Joan Younger were divorced in 1947. He married, secondly, Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea, daughter of Silas Reuben Vermilyea and Rachel Katherine Pechin, on 16 June 1961. He and Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea were divorced in 1969. He married, thirdly, Mildred Allewyn Bensusan, daughter of Raphael Bensusan and Beatrice Yager, in 1974. He married, fourthly, Mary Agnes Radonicich, daughter of E. Radonicich, in 1976. He died on 18 May 1995 at age 83 at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England. William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty usually went by his middle name of Brinsley. He was educated at Pangbourne Nautical College, Pangbourne, Berkshire, England. He was editor of Flying Saucer Review. He wrote the book The Sky People, published 1960. He wrote the book Men Among Mankind, published 1962. He wrote the book Forgotten Heritage, published 1964. He was an advertising salesman for a gardening magazine.1 He wrote the book The Flying Saucer Story, published 1966. He wrote the book Operation Earth, published 1969.1 He was the founder of the International Unidentified Object Observer Corps, and a House of Lords UFO Study Group. He wrote the book The Eternal Subject, published 1973. He wrote the book Secret of the Ages, published 1974. He succeeded to the title of 7th Marquess of Heusden [The Netherlands, 1818] on 15 September 1975. He succeeded to the title of 8th Earl of Clancarty, co. Cork [I., 1803] on 15 September 1975. He succeeded to the title of 7th Viscount Clancarty, of co. Cork [U.K., 1823] on 15 September 1975. He succeeded to the title of 7th Baron Trench of Garbally, co. Galway [U.K., 1815] on 15 September 1975. He succeeded to the title of 8th Viscount Dunlo of Dunlo and Ballinasloe, in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon [I., 1801] on 15 September 1975. He succeeded to the title of 8th Baron Kilconnel of Garbally, co. Galway [I., 1797] on 15 September 1975.”
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure at least when compared with our antiquated systems. In this, Trench is also correct; for Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the noted Northwestern University astronomer and former United States Air Force Project Bluebook consultant, once declared that physical scientists reject UFOs precisely because of their fantastic maneuverability, but all the while “conveniently forgetting that less than one hundred years ago they would have ruled out categorically the possibility of nuclear energy, television and space flight.”40 Trench feels that the UFO occupants have carried out these amazing aerial feats for the benefit of the world’s population, giving us some pause for a little reflection concerning the Earth’s place in the universe and the overall scheme of things. Trench explains the rationale of the Space Intelligences as follows: “These demonstrations by the UFOs were done for a very good reason. They have not landed on the White House lawn or in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace. Such a step would have been against cosmic law. The visitors have not openly landed during the cycle of this existing civilization because we have not yet shown that we are ready for them. They have stretched themselves to the limit.”41 The philosopher ufologist also lamented that “if after all this we cannot see the light, too bad.” Continuing with this same line of thought, let’s say that one of the species of extraterrestrials- the Venusians, for example- were to land openly tomorrow and begin to download all of their knowledge for us; well, that would be an infringement of cosmic law. We would have short-circuited the learning process, gaining nothing. There are certain lessons that we need to grasp before we can truly advance both individually and collectively as a civilization. Throughout the ages, the Venusian Hierarchy of Light has sent spiritual Photo depicts Swiss contactee Billy Meier masters to our planet to live among us and help us meeting an extraterrestrial woman from the along the path. In addition, these impartations of planet Erra in the Pleiades star cluster. For cosmic wisdom from the Venusian masters and other the time being, extraterrestrials will restrict their communications to select individuals, extraterrestrials among us since the dawn of recorded who can, in turn, prepare the people for history are found in our numerous spiritual texts. But future public, mass landings. See http:// sadly, their wise counsel is ignored. Unfortunately, we goldenageofgaia.com/2012/06/02/ourgalactic-family-with-mary-sparrowdancerhave failed to take heed of their important messages. author-of-the-love-song-june-3-2012/billyAnd ever since 1946, when we bounced a radar meier-image-26/. beam off the Moon and projected power beyond our atmosphere for the first time in recent eons, the Venusians and other visiting extraterrestrials have conducted countless patrols in our skies, paying particular attention to our development of advanced weapons technology and systems.42 Trench sums up his concerns, stating that, “The point I am trying to put over is that the sky people for thousands of years have tried to awaken humanity from its materialistic dreams, but there is a point beyond which they cannot go. They cannot openly land and act as nursemaids! It 40 41 42
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Raymond Andrew Keller II is up to each and every one of us to show that we have reached the stage of cosmic adulthood. We, ourselves, can awaken to some extent others, but remember….You can only go together if each man goes as if he went alone.”43 Trench’s statement is very important for us because it reflects dual levels of responsibility, both on an individual and a collective basis. Clearly, we can’t just stand by and wait for the extraterrestrials to save us from ourselves. If we cannot come together to even begin to tackle some of the problems confronting our species, how can we expect the Venusians or any other cosmic race to tidy up our situation? What right do we have to obtain a free pass into the Galactic Federation if we haven’t even reached the point in our celestial growth that we can even talk to our neighbors, let alone work them toward the “Cosmic Ray” Keller with Dolores Barrios, the “Queen of Outer achievement of meaningful goals? Space,” at Chula Vista, California, Trench whole-heartedly recommends that we become a in 1972. Apart from their mutual little more self-reliant and be a bit more pro-active in cleaning interest in all things Venus, the two are ardent researchers of Basque up our own messes. “That,” he affirms, “is the recipe I offer for history and share the same rare Athe quickest way to meet the sky people and to taking our place blood type. one day in a galactic federation. I am sure they are yearning for us to do just that, but it is time we showed that humanity is out of the adolescent stage. In short, IT IS TIME WE GREW UP.” And to this I will add, in the words of a verse from the Unitarian hymnal, “Let there be peace on Earth; and let it begin with me.”
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Chapter 3: Over the Rainbow
Cover art from An Earth Man on Venus by Ralph M. Farley (New York City, Avon Books, 1924). This novel formed the basis of the “Radio Man” series later published in the 1930s in pulp sci-fi magazines.
A new day has come A new day has... come I was waiting for so long For a miracle to come Everyone told me to be strong Hold on and don’t shed a tear Through the darkness and good times I knew I’d make it through And the world thought I had it all But I was waiting for you Hush, now I see a light in the sky Oh, it’s almost blinding me I can’t believe 38
Raymond Andrew Keller II I’ve been touched by an angel with love Let the rain come down and wash away my tears Let it fill my soul and drown my fears Let it shatter the walls for a new sun A new day has... come Where it was dark now there’s light Where there was pain now there’s joy Where there was weakness, I found my strength All in the eyes of a boy —Celine Dion, A New Day Has Come (2002) Approximately 18,500,000 years ago on the planet not yet known as Venus, Queen Freya of the Norcan settlement in the northern polar region of the cloud-shrouded world of Abejar, had a rather strange dream of being visited by a bright angel floating down from the sky. As she would soon discover, dreams really do come true. 1 January 1945, C.E., Earth time: On Venus’ cloaked moon of Neith, the Solar Heriarchy of Light is assembled for an emergency meeting. Commander Valiant Thor of the Victory One mothership, in a high polar orbit around the Earth and monitoring the progress of the Second World War, being carried out between the Allied and Axis powers below, reports that a rocket has been observed penetrating the third planet’s atmospheric envelope somewhere over Northern Europe and ascending up into outer space. Dysmas, the presiding angel in the Solar Hierarchy, sends out an instantaneous, telepathic request for more specific information from Commander Thor: “Is the rocket manned?,” “Is it armed?.” “What is its trajectory?” and “How much fuel is onboard?” Commander Thor assigns an orb flier from the Victory One to check out the rocket, as there is not enough time to deploy a scout craft. It is Lieutenant Orsic of the Akna Mountain Republic in the large northern continent of Ishtar Terra who rapidly engages her orb, precipitates through the bulkhead of the mothership, and zips over to the sputtering spacecraft. Focusing her keen psychic energies on the ship, she rapidly detects that there is a single pilot aboard, a rather young German Lieutenant Colonel by the name of Günter Specht. She quickly scans his thoughts at this critical moment and learns that Günter’s ship is fully armed with enough explosives to take out a goodly part of New York City, plus disperse enough radiation, in the form of radium and strontium 90 particulate, over the metropolis to kill a lot more people beyond the immediate blast area. This information is passed on at the speed of thought through a telepathic relay from Commander Thor to the Hierarchy’s members assembled in the council chambers on Neith. Vulcan, the Commander of the Venusian Defense Force, and hence the Starfleet, declares that, “The isotopes aboard that ship present an immediate danger to the Victory One. I advise engaging your electronic screens at maximum power and putting as much distance between you and that Nazi ship before it blows you, and itself, apart.” With the psychic communications link still intact, Lieutenant Orsic interjects, “But wait, there is more.” “Then please continue,” says Dysmas. 39
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Orsic continues: “He’s not like the other Nazis. I sense he has a good heart. He was ordered to convert the rocket into a flying bomb and ram it into New York’s tallest building. But rather than obey such a cruel command, he decided to alter its trajectory, pushing it up into outer space and blowing it up over the North Pole, where he didn’t think it would harm or kill anyone but himself.” The ever-wise Lady Sophia commented: “Well, that is the proverbial horse of a different color, then. But what can we do?” Commander Thor: “If there is anything that can be done, we better do it soon, or it will be too late for everyone.” Secretary Vulcan: “I still say we let the rocket selfdestruct in space. It is against the Code of Kronos to alter the course of human or Venusian history. The resulting inter-dimensional bifurcation will create another and unforeseen flux in the space-time continuum, and an additional time line for both worlds.” Lady Friggia: “I have a suggestion. Why not use the tractor beams aboard the Victory One to push the German rocket onto the Rainbow Bridge? Can you accomplish that, Commander Thor, my fellow Hyperborean?” Commander Thor: “Yes, we can do it. But we’ll have to focus all the rays through Orsic’s orb and then have her channel all of her power into moving the rocket onto the energy bridge. Do you think you can do that, Lieutenant Orsic?” Orsic: “Yes, sir! Just leave that up to me.” Vulcan: “I still have to object. The bridge is a wild card. Sure, its flux will carry the rocket man and his craft off to Venus; but in what time it will land- if it lands safely, only the Gods of Kolob can tell. We might In Norse mythology, Freya was one of the Valkyrie, a warrior goddess. She was also inadvertently alter our own dimension or time frame recognized as the goddess of sensual love and cease to exist.” and fertility. Of course, this captivating Dysmas: “Commander Thor, go for it! Love is the goddess had numerous lovers but ultimately became the wife of the mysterious Norse highest value on Venus, even surpassing all the known god Od. Like Venus to the Romans, Freya physical laws of the Omniverse. If we can’t honor and to the Norse peoples was considered to be sustain love, then what is our purpose, anyway? Make the most beautiful and propitious of the it happen.” goddesses. Freya is the patron goddess of crops and birth and was called upon in all With that, Liutenant Orsic transmitted a thought matters of love. She enjoys music, spring to the mind of the German astronaut, telling him to and flowers, and is particularly fond of the elves (fairies), that predominate in the Inner look out his port side, where he could see her orb, and World of Hyperborea. When Freya and the then cut off the rocket’s engines. The astronaut was Valkyries took to the skies on their celestial startled; but to this, he obeyed. Orsic then gave the missions, their glinting armor caused the mental commands for her orb to transform itself into a eerily beautiful, flickering light that we know as the Aurora Borealis, or Northern solid white sphere of light, absorbing the multiple rays Lights. See http://www.mysticunicorn.com/ emanating from the mothership and then refocusing AGDPCT8852.html. 40
Raymond Andrew Keller II them onto the rocket, which was now glowing in sparks of varied colors, being caught up, as it were, in the glide path of the fluxing particles composing the legendary Rainbow Bridge. Communications Officer Ilmuth, monitoring the particle flux with advanced Venusian astronomical instruments from the safety of the observation platform, managed to focus a superimposition ray on the rocket before it vanished from sight into the sparkling bridge. The superimposition ray can track artifacts moving in and out of the time stream. “I got a fix on the rocket before it disappeared,” Ilmuth mentally transmitted to Commander Thor. Commander Thor: “What was the reading?” Ilmuth: “The gauge was indicating 18,500,000 Terran years into the past, plus or minus 1.5 million years since it was so long ago.” Commander Thor: “Incredible, that’s around the time that the Lords of the Flame emerged, forever linking the destinies of Terra and Abejar. As Secretary Vulcan so aptly stated, only the Gods of Kolob will know what we have wrought this day!” In Norse mythology, the Bifröst was a burning rainbow bridge (platform of cosmic energy) that stretched between Midgard (the world of Earth) and Asgard (the realm of those beings the ancient Scandinavians at least perceived as gods, or that we know as the planet Venus). Norse writers make reference to the Rainbow Bridge as early as the thirteenth century. Sometimes it was also referred to as Asbrú or Æsir’s bridge. On Venus, the bridge is seen as an energyconnecting link not only with the Earth, but also to all of the other planets of our solar system, the Sun, and even well beyond into the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The famous scholar of Norse mythology, Andy Orchard, maintains that Bifröst means the “shimmering” or “shaking path.”44 Among the Ancient Ones, mention of the Bifrőst provoked notions of a “lustrous sheen” being attributed to the bridge; and the Austrian Germanist Rudolf Simek asserts that Bifröst either signifies “the swaying road to heaven” or “the fleetingly glimpsed rainbow.”45 Science Explains the “Shining Path” Of course, the main driver for the escape of ions from the sundry planetary atmospheres is the solar wind, aptly described as a high-speed outflow from the sun mostly composed of protons and electrons. But insofar as these particles carry a charge, their paths will bend once they encounter a magnetic field. And in the case of the lightly magnetized planets of Mars and Venus, the solar wind, for the most part, barrels directly into their respective upper atmospheres, whereupon it scoops up ions and carries them off as a stream into space. The Warth magnetic field, or magnetosphere, provides somewhat of a barrier to this solar wind. Nevetheless, ions still manage to get stripped away via a circuitous route. To explain this space phenomenon, Dr. Robert J. Strangeway of the Earth and Space Sciences Department of the University of California at Los Angeles’ (UCLA) Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, notes that essentially, the solar wind interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field transfers some of its energy into the upper atmosphere in the polar regions. The auroras can thus become visible at high latitudes are one manifestation of this transfer. However, the renowned physicist also explains that this process heats up atmospheric ions to such a degree that they escape up out of the poles, forming Earth’s “polar ion outflows.” In other words, Strangeway believes that, “The magnetic field is an obstacle to the solar wind, but it is also a funnel.” And while the effect of the solar wind on Earth is less uniform than on 44 45
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Mars and Venus; apparently the net loss rate of ions into the cosmic stream is about the same. Therefore, it can rightly be said that the solar wind loses some of its momentum when it runs into any planet. Basic physics, however, indicates that this momentum has to go somewhere. So according to the UCLA space scientist, it goes into the atmosphere of both the north and south polar regions where it energizes ions at these sites to such velocities sufficient to escape Earth’s gravity. And while the presence of a magnetic field changes the mechanism for this momentum transfer, the end result is, for the most part, the same.46 Theoretically, at least, an astronaut could catch a ride on this “shining path,” basically maneuvering her or his ship into the middle of the particle stream and thereby being whisked away to a neighboring celestial sphere. Perhaps some ancient Norseman realized that the “gods” in outer space were the masters of such technology, and used it in order to arrive on Earth. Or maybe they just got caught up in a magnetic storm in space, being accidentally transported to distant worlds where they had to fend for themselves under less than satisfactory conditions. But since the solar wind moves away from the Sun, how can a spacecraft from Earth, caught up in this legendary “Shining Path,” ultimately end up on Venus, since this would be moving the vehicle toward the Sun and against the stream of charged particles? Wouldn’t A stream of energized particles forms over the North Pole, creating the Aurora it seem more logical to assume that such a spacecraft Borealis. Did ancient astronauts recognize might more likely arrive on Mars or one of the outer the feasibility of transiting this phenomenon planets, as this would be more in line with “going with as a sort of cosmic bridge, connecting the Earth with the polar regions of other planets the flow,” so to speak? To find the answers, however, in the solar system? See http://www.space. we have to closely examine the up-to-recently little com/11187-earth-magnetic-field-solar-wind. understood phenomenon of the reconnection of html. magnetic lines of force in outer space. Quirks of Space Magnetism Fortunately, new discoveries about magnetic field lines are constantly being made, both theoretically on the blackboard and in the actual realm of outer space. The first-ever direct observation of the reconnection of these lines in space now serves to offer hope that scientists will learn how to unlock fusion power as a future energy source. With this in mind, could aliens have accomplished this same feat eons ago? As to the Earth’s magnetosphere, scientists believe NASA Cluster space probes discover a that the reconnection processes taking place there, as magnetic reconnection phenomenon over well as in fusion devices, are one and the same. Jeremy the Earth’s northern polar region. Credit: European Space Agency.
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Hsu, a science writer for the Internet magazine, Space.com, interviewed Dr. James Drake, a University of Maryland physicist, regarding the nature of this reconnection phenomenon and afterwards wrote that, “Space contains magnetic fields that direct the flow of plasma, an energetic fourth state of matter consisting of positive ions and electrons. The plasma particles normally follow the paths of the magnetic field lines like streams of cars following highways.” He further explained that, as a result, “Magnetic reconnection can release that stored energy when two magnetic field lines bend towards each other and fuse to create new field lines. The effect is not unlike an earthquake forcibly realigning parallel highways into perpendicular routes and channeling cars along the newly created paths. Although some released plasma energy travels in a straight line — called a super-Alfvenic electron jet — other plasma particles fan out as though escaping the opening of a trumpet.”47 Astrophysicists are fascinated by the effect; but it also frustrates efforts on Earth to create sustained energy sources through fusion. This is because the experimental fusion reactors force atomic particles to fuse together and release energy as plasma. This plasma is then supposed to be contained within a “magnetic bottle,” thereby caging the lines of the magnetic field so that the high plasma temperatures can go on to maintain the fusion reaction. It was noted, however, that magnetic reconnection can break the magnetic bottle; and this then allows the plasma to reach the colder walls of the reactor where fusion will not sustain itself. To get beyond this problem, Drake and others had to look well beyond the Earth and its magnetosphere, even to the other planets of our solar system and distant deep space objects, such as black holes. Drake’s research led him to the realization that some of the best reconnection data was going to be found in space. And during a sabbatical at the University of California at Berkeley, the theoretical physicist took advantage of his sojourn there to become better acquainted and work with Dr. Tai Phan, an observational physicist who was looking at magnetic field data from the European Space Agency’s Cluster satellites. Drake told the interviewer from Space. com: “I was doing theory; Tai was doing data and we suddenly saw this correspondence.” Drake wondered out loud, “Was it purely accidental?” Somehow, I don’t think so; but more about that later. Drake learned from his new association with Phan that it “just happened” that all four of the Cluster satellites crossed through a turbulent plasma region just outside Earth’s magnetic field in January 2003; where they also “just happened” to run into an area where magnetic reconnection had occurred. Physicists had previously believed that such areas, known as electron diffusion regions, were slightly over six miles long and, therefore, any probe or other vehicle would probably miss them in the vastness of space. But instead, the Cluster data clearly showed that the electron diffusion region measured 1,864 miles long — 300 times longer than early theoretical expectations and still four times longer than seen in the latest astrophysics simulations. And this also marked the first ever direct observations of magnetic reconnection in space, thus taking the phenomenon out of the area of theoretical physics and into the classification of the real. But while the basic physics behind magnetic reconnection remains a mystery, the Cluster satellite program promises that future missions will have a better chance of further examining this enigma in space. Already NASA is undertaking such a mission dealing with the “Magnetospheric Multiscale;” albeit details are sketchy at this time. But from what Space.com staff writer Hsu could gather, “It will consist of four spacecraft that study why the plasma particles can become ‘unfrozen’ or unstuck from the magnetic field lines 47
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure they normally travel along.” It should be added, however, that in Drake’s estimation, “Magnetic reconnection is simply the most dramatic example of this. Such an energy release amounts to a conversion of magnetic energy into particle energy, which can occur in black hole jets and drives solar flares.” This is astounding, not only because Drake hopes to someday create a computer model that can accurately describe the conversion process whereby scientists can also apply some understanding towards improving fusion reactors, but also because it indicates that the some alien or future Earth technology might be able to adapt these lines of magnetic reconnection to travel an interstellar transit system to other star systems and even to the core of our galaxy and beyond. But how could an Earth astronaut, caught up in such a magnetic reconnection, end up particularly on Venus? For while it is apparent that the reconnecting magnetic lines of force and their attendant particles can be repelled and shot away from the Earth in a pattern reminiscent of the waves emitted from a trumpet, how would the spacefarer know which wave to catch and ride the distance to the second planet? Well, it “just so happened” that as I was writing this section and diligently searching sundry astronomical journals for an answer, that I took a break to go to my mailbox, whereupon there was a weekly free local newspaper. I opened it up to casually scan it, and the first article to catch my eye was titled, “WVU plasma physicist awarded AGU James B. Macelwane Medal.”48 While perusing the article further, my eye also took note of the words “magnetic reconnection.” Now thoroughly enmeshed in the relevance of the article, I read the entire piece from beginning to end with meticulous detail. First, the plasma physicist receiving the award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) was Dr. Paul Cassak, an associate professor of physics at West Virginia University (WVU), here in Morgantown. This is the same academic institution where I am currently serving as a lecturer of classes in Ancient Greek and Roman Civilization and Culture as well as Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology. I am also scheduled to present a discourse on UFO contacts at the WVU Mountainlair (Student Union building), so perhaps someday soon I may actually get to meet Dr. Cassak in person. Second, the American Geophysical Union is the largest organization in the world dedicated to the study of geophysics, including an impressive membership of atmospheric, hydraulic, planetary and space scientists. The AGU has over 60,000 members in 139 countries; so for Dr. Cassak to win their prestigious award is indicative of both his and WVU’s high academic credentials and achievements. Third, the Macelwane Medal is awarded on an annual basis for no less than three but up to five scientists on the basis of their “depth and breadth of research, impact, creativity, novelty, service, outreach and diversity in the geophysical sciences within the first ten years of their careers.” Therefore, while the award is geared toward those in the initial embarkation stage of their scientific careers, it highlights the promising discoveries and future avenues of investigation in numerous fields. The award is named after one of the AGU’s former presidents, James B. Macelwane, who helped lay the groundwork for the field of seismology. All throughout Macelwane’s life, he consistently displayed a passion for teaching and encouraging young scientists. But fourth and most importantly, the article states that Dr. Cassak was awarded the medal for his cutting-edge research into magnetic reconnection, which the physicist aptly described 48
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Raymond Andrew Keller II as “a phenomenon in which magnetic field lines break apart and immediately reconnect to another broken magnetic field, ricocheting particles into the space environment, similar to the snapping of a taut rubber band.” In other words, magnetic reconnection is like the rubber band man going into action. He pulls the particles back in his slingshot, just like a boy would do with a stone or a marble, and then lets it fly out in the opposite direction, i.e. the same direction from which he had pulled the rubber band tautly back. So here’s a synopsis: As the energized particles stream forth from the Sun, being carried along by that huge orb’s massive magnetic field, some pass through the dense atmosphere over the polar regions of Venus. It is there where they are augmented, the magnetic lines of force are induced and the ionized particles propelled on their way to the Earth. Once the ions in this stream from Venus impact with the Earth’s magnetosphere, there are pulled back into our planet’s polar regions where they build up a charge sufficient to be bounced back all the way to the second planet and beyond. As the Sun is itself a great magnetic dipole, it should come as no surprise that particles can also travel from the planets towards the direction of the Sun. Those that are caught up in Venus’ polar regions are either reprocessed into reconnection or manifest as discharges of lightning in the upper reaches of the Venusian atmosphere, specifically above that planet’s polar regions, sometimes causing a “limb effect” occasionally viewable by astronomers here on Earth with powerful enough telescopes. Interestingly, when ancient peoples would observe Venus during those times when the planet was in close conjunction with the Earth, they would start running for cover to escape the threat of the “terrible goddess with her long flowing hair.” And that “hair” was the tail of Venus, which is not visible today unless you have the advanced technology such as that fitted on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) space probe launched in 1997 by the European Space Agency. In 1997 the SOHO satellite immediately detected what had not been seen for a long time, the electromagnetic Birkeland current tail structure which extends from Venus and comes very close to the Earth when the two planets are aligned with the Sun. On 30 June 1908, when the Tunguska event occurred, the Earth was actually closing in on the tip of that tail which in former times wrought destruction on the Earth in various forms, including extreme lightning storms. Earthly lightning provides ample examples of discharge behavior. There are also abundant Earth-space lightning examples, such as the phenomena manifested in sprites, blue jets and elves that occur in the region above intense thunderstorms. Also ground-to-cloud lightning bolts are now well known. A sub-storm could have exploited similar pathways. Sub-storms are electrical discharges within Earth’s own tail region. These gravitate toward our planet’s polar regions where they are studied as a cause of enhanced aurora displays. Some scientists have speculated that during the time of the Tunguska event, the Earth was nearly opposite to the position of our departing Moon. It was in eclipse of the Sun, a known factor in the facilitation of altering our planet’s geomagnetic condition. And all of this was occurring while a solar maximum was also taking place. The solar outbursts brought with them the potential for additional activity in our own tail region, a phenomenon observed by numerous observational satellites. Such activity triggers a dramatic intensification of the auroras. On the morning of 30 June, it appears as though the departing Moon, the Earth, and approaching Venus caused an alignment whereby our planet’s plasma shield was short circuited, thereby altering the way in which sub-storms behave, magnifying their power and focusing it in the Tunguska region. As other details are introduced, the Venus-induced electric 45
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure discharge perspective gains increased credibility. Recently, the discovery of Kimberlite pipes and glass beads (a.k.a. Kimberlite dyke swarms) in the region seems to bolster this theory, as these only occur as the result of an extreme electrical discharge of the mega-lightning variety.49 The Tunguska region may have been the site of previous discharges. Concurrently, the discovery of such Kimberlite dyke swarms on Venus is indicative of the electrical discharges induced in the Venusian atmosphere by the conjunctions with the Earth-Moon system.50 Such catastrophic interplanetary interactions permeate the texts of ancient legends; and with the discovery of sub-storms we now have several directions which electrical discharges might travel. Earth’s plasma sheath is now discharging regularly through the tail; but was that always so? Were the passage of Venus’ tail and our Moon’s eclipse, synchronized with a solar maximum, contributing factors for a planetary discharge? With future investigations of space plasma behavior we may find new clues to apply to the Tunguska mystery. This is yet another reason for the continued launching of space probes to Venus. By examining its weather patterns, and particularly its tail, we thereby gain significant understanding of our own planetary conditions, environment and evolution. Whether or not Venus emerged from the core of Jupiter, there can be little doubt that Immanuel Velikovsky was correct in his other assumption that the planet Venus has long and physically interacted with Earth’s history, to include its human population.51 On a Glide Path to Venus Unbeknownst to himself, Lieutenant Colonel Günter Specht was on a glide path to Venus. As he gazed out the porthole, he could no longer see the angelic figure of Lady Orsic, insofar as his spacecraft was completely enveloped in a sheath of vivid, multi-colored lights. The light was so intense that our intrepid astronaut had to pull down the shade. The brilliance still permeated the edges of the shade, but it would have to do for now. “At least I’m still alive,” he gratefully thought. “And now I know for a surety that angels are real.” In the meantime, while his ship was surging onward ever faster to some mysterious destination, Specht was also being transported back through time. It would take almost 70 years before scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China, would even begin to understand the nature and formidable power of this bridge of light that was propelling him to destiny. Dr. T. L. Zhang led a team in Hefei to study the observations made by the European Space Agency’s Venus Express magnetometer and low-energy particle detector. This was extremely important because it revealed the presence of a magnetic field and plasma behavior in the near-Venus wake that is symptomatic Figure 1: Detection of rotational magnetic field structure on Venus. of magnetic reconnection, a process that, up until 49
“The Tunguska Event, an ongoing mystery,” Bolt from Below, no author stated, undated, http://para-az.com/let2ed.html (Accessed 27 October 2014 and referenced in Keller, Venus Rising, footnote 20, pages 9 and 10). That such a phenomenon could have taken down an extraterrestrial spacecraft was taken up in Chapter V, “Blast from the Past.” 50 Richard E. Ernst, et al., “Giant radiating dyke swarms on Earth and Venus,” Conference Paper, Twenty-fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 1: A-F p 447-448 (SEE N94-12015 01-91), Lunar and Planetary Institute, Department of Geology, Ottawa University, Ontario, Canada, sponsored by NASA, 1 January 1993, NASA Technical Reports Server, http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19940007764 (Accessed 23 August 2015). 51 Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision (New York: Doubleday Books, 1950).
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Raymond Andrew Keller II 2012 at least, was believed to occur only in Earth’s magnetotail. It was not expected in the magnetotail of a nonmagnetized planet such as Venus. Zhang announced this discovery in a top secret session of China’s space exploration potentates, planning future missions for the People’s Republic. This was going to change everything, putting Venus as the primary target destination for Chinese spacecraft. Zhang declared that, “On 15 May 2006, the plasma flow in this region was toward the planet, and the magnetic field component transverse to the flow was reversed. Magnetic reconnection is a plasma process that changes the topology of the magnetic field and results in energy exchange between the magnetic field and the plasma. Thus, the energetics of the Venus magnetotail resembles that of the terrestrial tail, where energy is stored and later released from the magnetic field to the plasma.” The team of doctors Zhang, Q. M. Lu, A. M. Du, R. S. Wang, X. K. Dou and S Wang were coming to Fig. 2 Plasmoid flux rope observed with a realization that the powerful reversal in the planet magnetic field and plasma measurements Venus’ magnetic field may very well be the cause of on 15 May 2006. (A to D) The magnetic field data were rotated into a natural rifts in the space-time continuum. coordinate system with x along the ambient In their classified report to the Chinese Academy magnetic field before and after the events, y of Sciences, the team’s leader Zhang summed this containing the bimodal perturbation, and z up nicely: “On 15 May 2006, a rotational magnetic along the unimodal perturbation. The rotated coordinates are x = (0.863 –0.500 0.075), field structure was observed by Venus Express when y = (0.213 0.224 –0.951), and z = (0.459 crossing the Venusian magnetotail (Fig. 1). The 0.837 0.300). The dashed vertical lines are structure was located ~1.5 RV (1 RV = 6051 km, the edges of the plasmoid defined by the one Venus radius) down the tail and lasted ~3 min diamagnetic field minima at 0153:45 UT and 0155:19 UT. (E and F) The total counts (0153 to 0156 UT). The event occurred during a time of energetic electrons measured by the Electron Spectrometer (ELS) sensor and the of enhanced interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) total counts of the proton of the Ion Mass strength with small directional variation.” Analyzer (IMA) sensor (23), respectively. In The Chinese team leader added further explanation these spectrograms, the IMA has 12 s time to Figure 1 as follows: “A rotational magnetic field resolution and the ELS has 4 s resolution. structure in the Venus magnetotail based on magnetic The termination of the ion counts at 0154:17 is due to a rotation of the spacecraft, which field measurements by Venus Express on 15 May moved the look-direction of the ion sensor. 2006. The measurements are in the planet-centered The electron sensor is not as sensitive to spacecraft rotation as the ion sensor. Venus Solar Orbital (VSO) coordinate system, with X sunward and Z toward orbital north, similar to the Geocentric Solar Ecliptic Coordinate System at Earth. The shaded area represents Venus.” In light of the absence of any intrinsic magnetic field on Venus, the configuration of its induced magnetosphere is controlled by the upstream IMF orientation. This accounts for its draping around the highly conducting ionosphere. However, when one rotates the magnetic field observations from the measurement system to a system oriented with the expected electric 47
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure field and the ambient magnetic directions, such as indicated in Figure 2, the magnetic temporal variation is that of a well-defined flux rope plasmoid moving over the spacecraft. Zhang also pointed out that, “The structure has a bipolar-like rotation of the field and magnetic field maximum centered near the inflection point of the bipolar signature. The edges of the flux rope are well defined by diamagnetic field minima at 01:53:45 UT and 01:55:19 UT. A very strong plasmoid core field peaked at 27.8 nT, which is 46% higher than the neighboring lobe field of 19 nT. The enhanced ion and electron flux signatures were coincident with the plasmoid structure (See Fig. 2, E and F). Simple integration as a moment of distribution function gives a bulk velocity of (31, –18, 7) km/s in VSO coordinates, revealing the Venus-ward motion of the plasmoid structure. The plasmoid duration was 94 s (from magnetic field measurements), implying its size was 3,400 km, assuming the bulk velocity was the same as the plasmoid speed.” In other words, the electromagnetic anomaly was huge- 3,400 kilometers in lengthand found to be moving from the Earth, along the path of the Express probe, and toward Venus at fantastic speeds. But since Venus has no intrinsic magnetic field of its own to induce an anomaly of such a strong ion and electron flux, it had to be augmented from some outside force beyond the planet.52 The German Ace Who was this Günther Specht, the ace aviator chosen by the German High Command to pilot the most advanced rocket ever fabricated? First, he was “battle-born” during the first few months of World War I, on 13 November 1914 at Frankenstein in Niederschlesien, what was once a predominantly German-speaking town of southwestern Poland now known as Ząbkowice Śląskie in Lower Silesian Voivodeship. Second, his reputation as a crack pilot was literally unmatched in the annals of the Luftwaffe. Specht was credited with shooting down 34 enemy aircraft, with all his victories having been recorded over the Western front. Among those Allied aircraft shot down by Specht were15 four-engine bombers. According to Petr Kacha, an aviation historian specializing on “Aces of the Luftwaffe,”53 at the start of World War II, Specht was serving as a Leutnant with 3./ZG 76 “Horst Wessel,” the Third Squadron of the 26th Heavy Fight Wing flying Bf 110 Zerstörer twin-engined fighters. Kacha notes that, “On 29 September 1939 he achieved his first victories when he shot down two RAF Hampden twin-engine bombers. On 3 December 1939, he shot down a RAF Wellington twin-engine bomber over the North Sea. However, his aircraft received hits in the cockpit from return fire seriously wounding him and necessitating a ditching in the sea. He subsequently lost the sight in his left eye. Specht did not let the disability deter him from combat flying. On 23 May 1940, he shot down three RAF Spitfire fighters. However, his aircraft was shot up in the engagement necessitating a forced-landing between Calais and Boulogne. Specht again received serious wounds, which would keep him from combat duty for some time. On his recovery, Specht became a staff officer and, on 31 October 1941, Gruppenkommandeur of III./ Nachtjagdschule 1, a position he held until 31 October 1942.” Although Specht was only about 5’4” in height, he was full of energy. He sported a distinguished patch of gray in his hair, just above his forehead. His compatriots in the German aviation community often described him as a perfectionist with high sense of duty. He always 52
T. L. Zhang, et al, “Magnetic Reconnection in the Near Venusian Atmosphere,” 04 May 2012, Science, volume 336, issue 6081, pages 567-570. 53 Petr Kacha, “Gunther Specht,” Aces of the Luftwaffe, 1999-2007, http://www.luftwaffe.cz/specht.html (Accessed 17 January 2016).
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure century and early twentieth century. There were mass migrations from areas which were then eastern parts of Germany to more industrialized regions in central and western Germany. These westward-moving migrants hailed from East Prussia, West Prussia, Silesia and Posen. Ultimately, they took up residence in those provinces along the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. While most of the migrants in this westward shift were ethnic Germans, a good many were of Polish ethnicity, later known as Ruhrpolen, and Jews. This was especially true in the Ruhr Valley. Given their similar backgrounds, it is not surprising that Tank and Specht would develop both a close personal friendship and professional relationship. Much as other Germans with Prussian ancestry, Tank’s family background reflected a strong military heritage. With the arrival of World War I, Tank followed in both his father’s and paternal grandfather’s footsteps, enlisting in the cavalry. He really wanted to sign up for duty in the new Imperial German Army Air Service, Major Günther Specht (left) and Prof. but did not want to let his father down by breaking Kurt Tank (right), developed a close personal and professional relationship. with the family’s equestrian tradition. Despite the Tank recommended Specht to pioneer Fatherland’s defeat, Tank was none-the-less for wear, aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun being honorably discharged with the rank of captain as the pilot for the advanced New York rocket bomb. See https://commons. and having won many decorations for bravery. Tank wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_ reasoned that since the war was now over, there would Bild_101I-676-7975A-28,_Wunstorf,_ be plenty of time for him to pursue a career in aviation, Major_G%C3%BCnther_Specht_und_ Prof._Kurt_Tank.jpg. which is exactly what he did, enrolling in the Technical University of Berlin, majoring in aeronautical/electrical engineering. While the German economy was in shambles, and the political situation within the Fatherland represented a tug-of-war between the left and right extremes, Kurt Tank buried himself in his studies, both as a test pilot and an electrical engineer with applications to aviation, graduating with honors and obtaining both his Ph.D. and his pilot’s license in 1924. He would leave the economy and politics for others to address. He wanted in on the exciting new world of aviation that was only then beginning to open up. The Focke-Wulf Aircraft Construction Company So Tank dreamt of test flying all the aircraft he would design and build, but if it was ever going to be possible for Germany to develop an aviation industry, some marginal improvements, at the very least, needed to be made in the economic sector. On 6 June 1924, the Reichstag took its first baby step in this direction by accepting for due consideration the Dawes Plan, a German debt reduction schedule advanced by the United States. A little more than two months later, German openness to the Dawes Plan caught the attention of some representatives of the French government attending the London Conference on World War I Reparations. After holding out for years on end, they suddenly folded on the issue of the occupation of the highly 50
Raymond Andrew Keller II industrialized Ruhr Valley and returning it to German control, agreeing to vacate the area at the earliest convenience. And then, on 29 August, the Reichstag responded in kind by actually approving in total the Dawes Plan. And on the following day, the Reichsbank was authorized to begin operating independently of the German government by issuing a new mark to be used in lieu of the runaway inflation that completely devalued the older currency. Suddenly the business climate was looking good in the Fatherland, and on 10 October an international loan was granted to Germany to give a boost to the nation’s emerging economy and industries. And during the period of 18-30 November 1924, both Belgium and France returned control of the Ruhr Valley and all of its factories to German sovereignty. So before 1924 had run out, the foundation of the Focke-Wulf Aircraft Construction Company was laid down by Georg Wulf, Professor Heinrich Focke and Dr. Werner Neumann. Headquartered in Bremen, Duffy pointed out that “the company experienced moderate success with a series of light passenger airplanes used by several European airlines.”56 This is the company where Kurt Tank would discover a venue for his creative impulses. Tank biographer John Zukowsky writes that, “In 1924…. he began work at the Rohrbach aircraft factory. There he established the design and testing department,” adding that, “Tank left Rohrbach in 1930 to work for the Messerschmitt Aircraft Company only to leave in 1931 to become the design director and head of flight testing for Focke-Wulf in Bremen. It was there that he developed world-famous aircraft such as the Fw 190 and the Fw 200 Condor.”57 Some aviation historians consider the Fw 190 to be one of the best single-seat fighters of World War II. The Fw 200 Condor, on the other hand, was a long-range reconnaissance bomber and would become the Luftwaffe’s chief anti-shipping weapon and scouting craft for the U-boats. Duffy elaborates on the importance of the Fw 200 Condor: “Although less than 300 of the four-engine Condors are thought to have been built, their cruising speed of 208 miles per hour, operational range in excess of 2,200 miles, and ability to remain aloft for 14 hours, helped them become the scourge of Allied shipping. Its record of Allied shipping sunk by air attack is out of proportion with the number of Condors actually in service. It was an early version of the Condor that made the famous 1938 nonstop flight from Berlin to New York.”58 Keeping this in mind, it was hardly surprising that Tank and the FockeWulf Company’s hierarchy decided to enter into the competition to build the Ta 400, the socalled “America Bomber.”59 Kurt Tank’s “America Bomber” The design work for the Ta 400 was initiated by Tank in 1943. With the war not going in Germany’s favor on the Eastern front, and with the weather and Stalin’s defense forces putting up a bigger resistance than Hitler ever counted on, time was of the essence. Another concern was the plethora of speculations in the German intelligence community of an Allied invasion of France to take place before 1943 had run its course. With all of this in mind, Kurt rounded up some French technicians from the Chatillon Sur Begneux suburb to the southeast of Paris to help him with the design work and planning stages for the advanced bomber, which called for the use of six BMW radial engines. Each of these would produce up to 1,700 horsepower. 56 57 58 59
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Later, however, this was altered. The new design called for two Jumbo 004 jet engines. By 6 June of the following year and the actual Allied invasion of France (D-Day), the designs for the Ta400 were complete but only a wind tunnel model had been created. Of the Ta 400 planning period, Duffy writes: “Because no prototype of the Ta 400 was ever built, it never got beyond construction of a wind tunnel model; the performance ranges and dimensions are based solely on the estimates of the designers. If one had been built, its wingspan would have been nearly 138 feet, and its overall length slightly over 95 feet. It was expected to achieve a maximum speed of 332 miles per hour, and have an operational range of close to 5,000 miles with a bomb load of 22,000 pounds.”60 Time had run out. As a last-ditch effort to deter the Americans and turn the tide of war back in Germany’s favor, the Nazi High Command opted for the suicide rocket. But who would pilot the ship? Since Kurt had in mind his home-boy Specht to fly the bomber, the honor would fall on him to guide the rocket from the edge of space to the heart of New York City. This is how the Fates chose Specht to become Earth’s first astronaut in the modern era. Arrival on Venus Specht looked out the porthole, trying to get a glimpse of the Earth as it began to fade from few. He was not disappointed; for the planet beneath him was seemingly shrinking by the second as the bridge of light carried his rocket ship ever further out at speeds too fantastic to even comprehend. After a few minutes, however, as the rocket ship accelerated on its journey into the void, it began to violently teeter from fore to aft. Of course, Specht was greatly concerned about this latest development and looked again out the porthole in the hope of garnering enough data to adequately address any emergent problem. Expecting to see once more multi-colored sparks being emitted in every direction, along with the brighter stars and other celestial objects, he now noted nothing but a soft, white and luminous aura about his ship with absolutely nothing but pitch blackness beyond it, penetrating the eternal realm of outer space. Even the Earth was invisible, or perhaps just beyond Specht’s limited range of vision afforded by the small porthole. In any case, the rocket veered sharply to the left; and right away the Moon came into full view, being glorious in many of its aspects, craters and all. “But where were the stars?” pondered Specht. “How could they just disappear?” There wasn’t much time for astronomical speculation. Suddenly the Moon turned into a massive band of intense, white light stretching out into infinity. Of course, our natural satellite was undamaged and still in orbit about the Earth. Specht was just looking at the orb from outside of our own space-time continuum. Normally, such a blazing white light would be blinding, too brilliant to gaze upon with unprotected eyes. Therefore, astronomers must use a special lens when viewing very bright celestial objects. The German space farer recalled a science class from his years in the Gymnasium (high school) where he and his classmates watched a solar eclipse. At that time, the cautious instructor required all the students to only look at the celestial event with the aid of an especially thick arc welder’s glass. Such a teacher we should all enjoy today. He was taking the maximum precaution to avoid, among his students, the condition known as solar retinopathy. This can occur when bright light from the sun floods the retina on 60
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Raymond Andrew Keller II the back of the eyeball. The science teacher also explained that over-stimulation by sunlight causes a release of sundry chemicals that can damage the retina. And while this damage is often painless, most people are unaware of the harm they are doing to their vision when observing a solar event of any type, but particularly an eclipse. Von Braun and some of the other German scientists that designed and supervised the construction of what would become the first manned rocket ship of the modern era also anticipated that once astronauts got into space, they might need similar protection for their eyes. Although the doomsday missile was being built in the final days of the Third Reich, the German High Command was insisting that no expenditures in its development program be cut back. To many, this mission was the last chance for any hope of survival for Hitler’s great Germanic empire that was supposed to last for a “thousand years,” or more. So if the “New York rocket” proved unsuccessful, the Third Reich might not even make it into the following month. Patton’s tanks would roll over everything, and everyone, from the west; and the Russians would secure control over everything in the east. Therefore, after some considerable thought, and despite the expenses involved, the German scientists reasoned that the best strategy they could use in this regard would be to cover nearly everything in or on the spacecraft, and on its pilot, in gold foil. Even back in the 1940s, scientists were aware that in space, the Sun transfers heat via radiation to Exposure to heat waves presents a serious danger to equipment and astronauts. Having conducted astronauts. See http://physics.stackexchange.com. high altitude balloon observations of the upper atmospheric regions, the German rocketeers came to understand that even though the Sun’s peak emission was in the visible region at about 500 nm, there is also a fair amount IR (infrared) and UV (ultraviolet) emitted as well at the top of the atmosphere, extending into space. Hence, the German science team concluded that in order to control the surface temperature of an object that is exposed to IR, it would be necessary to wrap it with a metallic substance that could reflect these heat waves, thus keeping it from getting too “hot.” The plot of reflectance vs. wavelength below indicates that the metals of aluminum, copper, silver and gold are all good IR-reflectors since their reflectance is close to 100% for wavelengths greater than 700 nm (λ ≥ 700 nm). So why did Von Braun and the other scientists settle on gold, the most costly of all the metals under consideration? Most likely, it is for the same reason that gold is used extensively in circuit boards today. First, gold does not corrode or rust, while silver and copper does. That would definitely reduce reflectance, as this would occur even before takeoff; and second, as any metallurgist will Reflectivity is one of the many properties of gold that explain, gold is a lot easier to work with than make it an ideal element for fabricating equipment aluminum. Clearly then, gold is an extremely to be used in outer space. See http://physics. important element for any civilization that stackexchange.com.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure desires to venture into outer space. Interestingly, ancient astronaut proponent Zecharia Sitchin maintains that it was the prevalence of gold on Earth that first attracted extraterrestrial visitors to our planet.61 So the German scientists designed a space capsule window and an astronaut’s helmet fitted with a sun visor, both coated with a thin layer of gold. This combination gave complete protection to Specht on his New York mission. Now his eyes could focus on visible and near- IR light, with these impacting onto his retinas equally well. As it has evolved over eons of time, the human eye has visible receptors but not IR ones. Therefore, when intense visible light hits these receptors, they transmit information that allows us to know that this is painful and will cause damage if we don’t either close them or look away. On the other hand, without IR receptors, one wouldn’t even realize that their eyes were being “burned” with an intense IR source. For this reason, astronauts need IR protection from intense sunlight in the rarified upper atmosphere The German astronaut rockets past the Moon on his way to Venus. See http:// or beyond it, in space. Even today, the gold backing rockets.utena.su/spacesuits.html. on windows or visors utilized by NASA is actual gold foil. All of the Apollo helmet visors were gold-coated to block IR and shade from the Sun. This gave them that slight greenish tinge; but it enabled the astronauts to lift the visors when they were not facing the Sun in order to get a better view of the actual colors evident on the lunar surface. But in getting back to Specht’s mission, as Germany was in desperate straits by mid-1944, one trembles when pondering where the Nazi scientists obtained the gold to melt down and fit all the necessary equipment in their New York rocket. But the scientists, engineers and technicians working on the project probably put this matter to the back of their minds, supposing it was Turk’s concern to work out the logistics. In any event, since just a few minutes after blast off, Specht had lost all radio communications with the base. All he was hearing was a lot of static and radio interference (QRM). He thought of toggling the radio switch again, trying to reestablish a link; but after mulling it over, on second thought decided to just leave well enough alone. Back at HQ, they were all probably thinking that the rocket just fizzled out somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean and that was the end of story. Specht whispered, “Let them believe what they want.” Günter Specht was born 13 November 1914 He reached into a pocket in his flight jacket and pulled and reported as “missing in action” on 1 1945. See http://luftwaffe.cz/specht. out a photograph of his beloved wife, kissing her black January html. 61
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure boring of ice cores on a moving Arctic glacier. By the early 1950s, the theory he advanced was accepted when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided the needed support for continental drift and the current model of plate tectonics.63 At any rate, Specht was pleased that he paid attention to Professor Wegener’s lecture. Now he surmised that the overwhelming presence of noctilucent clouds around this planet could only mean that extensive volcanic activity could be expected on its surface. Landing there might pose a problem; but what choice did he have in the matter? And what would he find there if he could safely land? Besides the volcanoes and resulting horrific climatic conditions, what kinds of strange beasts and plants would he run into? There is also the question of intelligent life to consider. What shape would this life take; and would he find friends or foes? In trying to determine what planet he was soon to arrive at, or crash on alive or dead, Specht also recalled those classes in basic astronomy that he had enrolled in even earlier in life, back at the Gymnasium. “Hmmm,” he speculated, “Mercury was a lot smaller than this world, maybe about the size of the Moon. And besides, Mercury is so close to the Sun that most of its atmosphere was probably blown off into outer space eons ago.” Then he thought of Venus. “From what I can see taking place here, it might very well be our sister planet. Venus is about the same size as the Earth and has a dense atmosphere. It is also the nearest planet to the Earth.” He continued to ponder this question, and concluded that, “No, I don’t think it can be Mars. I know that Mars is just too small, and I’ve seen it through the telescope at Göttingen before the university closed it in 1933 for renovations. Mars seemed to have a lighter and fuzzierlooking atmosphere, one with a reddish tint. And there were clearly surface markings on Mars and polar caps.” Specht dismissed the outer planets. They were just too big for a match with this world. And Saturn had the rings where this planet didn’t have any. “It’s got to be Venus,” Specht guessed, “because I also fail to see any moons, unless they are on the other side of the planet and they are not visible from this orbital point. I don’t think Venus has any moon; so it’s probably Venus.” Speculations on the “Ashen Light” While the German space voyager pondered the presence of shining clouds in the Venusian atmosphere, he may also have given thought to the so-called “Ashen Light,” that for many astronomers is a well-known feature of our sister planet. When Venus is in crescent phase, the dark portion of the disc can frequently be seen with a faint illumination. This phenomenon is best seen when by astronomers when the bright crescent is blocked off by an occulting bar. In writing about the earliest astronomical observations of this phenomenon, V. A. Firsoff notes: “Early in the nineteenth century the German astronomer Paula von Gruithuisen suggested that this was due to the illuminations to celebrate the accession of a new ‘Emperor of Venus.’ These emperors must be very short-lived, as the ‘Ashen Light’ can at times be seen on several occasions in a single month. It is not always uniform, and may have a spotty or patchy appearance. Wavy lines may also appear within it. Owing to spherical perspective it may be intensified towards the limb into what I have called the ‘woolen thread.’ Sometimes the light brightens up towards the cusps, suggesting polar aurorae.”64 63 64
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure The fire and smoke from the destruction of the wasp nest ascended to the heavens. The wasps were dropping like rain. The few survivors, left without a queen, became dazed and confused and straggled off into all directions. Of course, the Norcans were sad that about the four dozen of their number who had lost their lives in the airborne struggle with the wasps. But now, along with the Bee Collective with whom they existed in a symbiotic relationship, the Norcans were the joint masters of Abejar. Massive bonfires were lit all throughout the northern continent. The Norcans held a great feast and danced around the fires to celebrate their wondrous victory. The Norcans renamed their continent Teutonia in honor of the legendary home of the Scientist who saved them. Wenchang Launch Facility, Hainan, People’s Republic of China, 19 March 2041 The Scientist remained on Abejar for the equivalent of about ten Earth years, just enough time for him to pilot the first spaceship of the Venusianische Luftwaffe. It was sporting, of course, his personal insignia of the flying pencil. Since he didn’t know that he had flown through the time barrier, he thought he would end up back on Earth in the year 1955. He would just launch his anti-matter powered Vril rocket up through one of the two northern vortices and maneuver it over to the bridge of light and hope it would send him merrily back on his way to Earth and his home in Germany, provided there still was a Germany. Frankly, the prospects for a German Reich that would last a thousand years were looking pretty dismal on 1 January 1945. Günter thought that by now maybe all of his fellow countrymen would be speaking English or Russian when he finally got back home. Naturally, he was guite startled to discover such a different world back on Earth in 1990; but he was happy to see that Germany had survived and counted itself as a democratic and peaceful country among the nations. But he liked his life in the United States, and signed on as a rocket engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, making his home in nearby Altadena and eventually retiring there. Biologically, Günter had lived for 95 years, albeit these years were spread out between different time periods, when he received a call at his Altadena home. Günter was counting on living another twenty years or so. It was 19 March 2041; and the call was from Chiang Yüan, the director of the Wenchang Launch Facility in Hainan Province of the People’s Republic of China. “Hello, Günter, this is Dr. Chiang Yüan from the Wangchang Launch Facility in Hainan. I’m calling you about the latest space development taking place here in China.” “Oh, what is that?” “We just received a static-filled radio transmission from a space vehicle that dropped into a polar orbit requesting permission to land. The ship has a weird anti-matter propulsion signature. The pilot is a young woman named Eva and she speaks a strange dialect of German. She says that she is is the Princess of Venus and that her mother, Lady Freya, the Queen of Venus, is also onboard. At first we thought it was some kind of joke, because no life can exist on the surface of Venus, at Princess Eva of Venus goes least as we know it. It’s just too hot.” in search of her father. See https://www.pinterest.com/ “Ich glaub mich knutscht ein Elch!” pin/464996730248847614/. 64
Raymond Andrew Keller II “But they specifically asked for you; Queen Freya said that you were Eva’s father and an astronaut. We called NASA and they confirmed that you worked for them once upon a time. We can fly them out to LA if you want, after they pass through quarantine for a couple of weeks.” “Yes, by all means Dr. Yüan, please make it so.”
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Albert Ghiorso (above) discovered Californium while working with a team of particle physicists at the University of California at Berkeley, in 1950. They bombarded atoms of curium-242 with alpha particles, thereby producing atoms of californium-245, an isotope with a half-life of about 45 minutes, and a free neutron. The origin of the name for californium, generator of the most powerful nuclear forces in the known universe, is derived from the state of California as well as the University of California. On Venus this element is known as Cytherium. In quantities about the size of a nickel, it can be used to power the huge neutron pulse generators of the large carrier or mother ships in the Galactic Federation Space Fleet and in tinier, near microscopic amounts, to activate an individual Abejaran’s nimbus, or orb control device. See http://mckennamorgancalifornium. weebly.com/history-of-californium.html.
Can you understand me? Baby don’t you hand me a line; Although it doesn’t matter You and me got plenty of time. There’s nobody in the future So baby let me hand you my love; Oh, there’s no step for you to dance to So slip your hand inside of my glove…. I’m just around the corner If you got a minute to spare; I’ll be waitin’ for ya’ If you ever want to be there. Hold me, hold me, hold me….. —Fleetwood Mac, “Hold Me,” Mirage album (1982) For approximately the equivalent of twelve revolutions of Neith following her ascension to the throne of Abejar (Venus), Lord Dysmas took the time to acquaint Queen Orda with most of her newly acquired royal duties. In this interim period of instruction, the queen’s regent handled the affairs of state on her behalf. “It all seems quite routine,” said the queen to the accidental apostle Dysmas, adding that, “There really hasn’t even been much of a skirmish on 66
Raymond Andrew Keller II Abejar for almost the last two millennia, ever since you became the prime minister. The Earth is really where it’s at. As they say back in California, ‘Can you dig it?’” “I suppose I can ‘dig it,’ as you say, my Queen,” responded Lord Dysmas. Well, who are we to stand on endless formalities? If there’s anything you’d like to do, now that you have all the power this quadrant of the Omniverse has to offer, why don’t you just go for it? After all, Lady Orda, you’re now the Queen Bee around here, so who’s going to tell you how to do anything?” “Any suggestions?” “Why yes, my Queen. I have been having some delightful conversations with our guest, your California friend from China, the ‘Cosmic Ray.’ He really likes you a lot, and says you remind him of someone called Lady Ga Ga.” The queen laughed. “Please go on.” “It seems that he’s led quite an adventuresome life. He’s always been working on behalf of the underdogs; so he’s definitely a man after my own heart. In so many ways, he reminds me of my earlier life among the band of Zealots in Samaria.”68 “Yes, to his benefit, the Cosmic One does tend to care more for others than himself. So he fits right in here on Abejar,” noted the queen. Lord Dysmas chided in, “He tells me that he’s planning on writing a concise history of the second planet, so he’d like to obtain your permission to use the Cyther Dome’s chrono facilities in order to write an accurate, eyewitness account. But it seems the Lords of Kronos, the Metrons, aren’t too keen on his idea. Why don’t you clear a path for his research, and go with him to the Dome? You can fill him in on Venusian activities that were taking place behind all the scenes that he’ll have in focus through the time scope.” Thinking out loud the queen muttered, “Hmmm, I don’t know. Usually, the Metrons are pretty spot-on with their perceptions. Oh, what can possibly go wrong? The time scope is just a glorified TV set, albeit one that can look back in time.” The Queen paused for a moment, but suddenly broke out into a big smile that so characterized her back on Earth. She blurted out, “Lord Dysmas, you’re not unlike Phineas J. Whoopee.” “I’m afraid I have not had the pleasure of his acquaintance,” replied Lord Dysmas. “Who is this Phineas J. Whoopee?” Queen Orda responded: “Why Phineas J. Whoopee is the smartest and wisest man who ever lived on the planet Gaia. He’s a frigging genius he is, even smarter than the Wizard of Oz.” “Why do tell me more, my Queen. Your excitement over Phineas J. Whoopee is so contagious.” 68
With his activities spanning many continents, the life and times of the Cosmic Ray are very complex and controversial, at times focused on the fringes of the law and politics. Suffice it to say, I would not be surprised if one day an astute historian will write a biography of Dr. Raymond Andrew Keller along the lines of Fawn M. Brodie’s treatise on the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, No Man Knows My History (New York, New York: A. A. Knopf, 1945). Currently he is serving his fifth term as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) in the Morgantown, West Virginia area. In his first term, he was assisting Literacy Volunteers in their outreach to immigrants, helping them with immigration and citizenship issues, as well as those West Virginians from all strata of society seeking to obtain their GEDs. Second and third terms as VISTA helping persons with disabilities, seniors and veterans obtain free or affordable transportation to their medical and dental appointments. He continues working behind the scenes in various organizations for securing the rights of veterans and all struggling peoples, generally. In 2011, he successfully defended his dissertation, Emergence of the Afro-Zulians in the Transatlantic World, 1722-1811, and published his first book by the same title in 2013 with Mellen Press of Lewiston, New York. -C.T., President of Headline Books.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Queen Orda explains to Lord Dysmas that Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales was a television show on Earth that aired from 1963 to 1966. After the great United States President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Lady Orda as Dolores Barrios left her home in Southern California to go live in Vitoria, Brazil, going back to her Latin American connection. Continuing to live in the United States just saddened her so much; as everything there reminded her of the late but oh so beautiful spirit of President Kennedy. Watching Tennessee Tuxedo, translated into Portuguese, was one of the few pleasures that Dolores enjoyed during that dismal period when everything otherwise good and bright seemed to die and flicker out in the world. “You see,” explained the Queen, “Tennessee was this penguin and he had a walrus friend Chumley. Together, they regularly escaped from the controlled environment of the city zoo, only to find trouble in the outside world. It was sort of like a Madagascar before its time.” “It has something to do with the island of the lemurs?” “Excuse me, Lord Dysmas, I was just making reference to another work.” “No problem, my Queen. Continue with the tales of the penguin and you shall receive my rapt attention.” “OK, it seems that whenever Tennessee would propose a scatter-brained scheme, Chumley would be skeptical at first, a lot like the Metrons were to our cosmic friend Ray. Typically, Tennessee would take care to assure Chumley that his superior intelligence would carry the day, by declaring ‘Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!’ However, more often than not, he did…. uh, fail that is.” “And this is supposed to be funny?” “Yes, and I’m getting to the funny part now,” said the Queen. “For you see, Chumley would respond with his own phrase, ‘Duh, OK Tennessee;’ and when faced with more trouble than they could possibly continue to endure, the pair would turn to their friend Phineas J. Whoopee, the ‘Shell Answer Man of his age.’” “Shell Answer Man, who is that?” “Oh, I’m just making another cultural allusion. What I meant to say is that Mr. Whoopee always had an answer for any question that Tennessee or Chumley might ask him. Mr. Whoopee was extremely knowledgeable on all subjects, and would frequently lecture the pair on diverse topics, from the physics behind hot air balloons to how musicians become popular. What is really interesting is that his lectures were illustrated and animated on the Three-Dimensional Blackboard (3DBB for short), and that’s a lot like our own Cyther Dome’s time scope here on Abejar. But even more important was that he would retrieve really cool stuff out of an avalanche of junk from his overstuffed hallway closet.” “Are you feeling alright, my Queen? Can I bring you something?” A little perturbed and stomping her traditional left-footed Venusian hieroglyph-soled sandal on the floor, Lady Orda curtly replied, “I’m just fine, Dysmas. Let me finish my story.” “I’m sorry, my Queen. By all means, please proceed with the story of Phineas J. Whoopee, the penguin and the walrus.”
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Left to Right: Tennessee Tuxedo, Chumley and Phineas J. Whoopee. The Queen of Venus enjoys watching the Tennessee Tuxedo television program. See www. cartoonscrapbook.com.
“Well, on so many occasions, Tennessee and Chumley would have to overcome a personal problem to which children could relate, such as Chumley’s requiring treatment for a toothache but fearing the dentist. And at the conclusion of each lecture from Mr. Whoopee, Tennessee praised his mentor with the line, ‘Phineas J. Whoopee, you’re the greatest!’ This name also applied to when Mr. Whoopee shouted out in excitement: ‘Whoopie!!!” “And…?” “And the point here, Lord Dysmas, is that Whoopee would make both Tennessee and Chumley promise not to fool around with dangerous things. You know, like we are trying to convince the Terrans not to mess around with nuclear energy.” The accidental apostle nodded his head, remarking
that, “OK, I sort of get that.” “Well yes, my long-time friend. This was more than just a cartoon. Sometimes, Tennessee and Chumley had to see Mr. Whoopee again when they failed in their first attempt to solve things. And this, in turn, caused Mr. Whoopee to say: “But, I’ve tried to warn you....” But often the warning from Whoopee came too late to help both Tennessee and Chumley. And interestingly, Stanley Livingston- that was the name of the zookeeper- and Mr. Whoopee were never seen together, nor was Whoopee’s name ever mentioned in Stanley’s presence.” “So you are clearly seeing some analogous situation to the atomic crisis back on Earth?” “Oh, yes, definitely. The scientists back there are like Tennessee and Chumley; while we, the Venusians, play the role of Whoopee. They keep experimenting with both nuclear power applications and fissionable bombs, while we keep sending green fireballs to neutralize their dastardly radiation effects, as best we can. Then we keep sending our emissaries over to Earth in our ventlas (Venusian word for flying saucers), warning the Terrans through the contactees in their midst that they better stop this foolishness now, because sooner or later they will reach a point of no return and even we will not be able to help them.” “Gotcha. But then who’s Stanley?” “Well, Stanley Livingston represents their world’s economic, political, military and religious authorities, whom we certainly do not trust. We tried to communicate with them back in the 1950s, when our Angelic Council of Light dispatched Commander Thor among them. You see the dead end street we all ended up on after that.” “The Cosmic Ray is researching and writing about the 1950s, even as we speak. I know he’ll appreciate your help in conducting research in the Cyther Dome. I think it would be fine if you went to him now, as I know you both did some research together on several occasions at the Basque Cultural Center in Idaho. But remember he was Lady Encara’s consort back in the 1980s and they both go back through numerous incarnations together, all the way to Virgil and Beatrice. After all, we all know that it’s not nice to upset Lady Encara.” There was a sly smile on Queen Orda’s face.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Meetings on the Mormon Mesa Truman Bethurum (August 21, 1898 – May 21, 1969) was, like George Adamski, one of the better known contactees of the 1950s. Bethurum was born in Gavalin, California, and in the early 1950s found work as a mechanic on a road-building crew up on the Mormon Mesa in Nevada. Bethurum’s first account concerning his extraterrestrial encounters was published in the 25 September 1953 edition of the Redondo Beach, California, Daily Breeze. In the article, Bethurum alleged that advanced beings from outer space had contacted him on numerous occasions up on the mesa. Most of these meetings with the space people involved conversations with the female captain of a flying saucer going by the name of Aura Rhanes. Captain Rhanes informed Bethurum that her people came from a Venusian base on the far side of our own Moon, built under a protective dome inside the rim of Lady Encara (Beatrice) and the Cosmic Ray a large crater. To its inhabitants, this domed city was (Virgil) have shared encounters through called Clarion. The Venusians established the Clarion many lifetimes. She points out Venus rising the left of the larger tree. See http:// base in order to conduct a long-term surveillance of to danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/gallery01.html. the Earth. Essentially, Clarion served as a forward observation post. The Venusians, it seems, were especially concerned about the nuclear buildup and testing going on in both the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The captain explained to the contactee that because Venusians have been living and working among Earthlings for countless millennia, it was no problem for her to speak in colloquial English or numerous other languages, as well, such as Chinese, Russian or Spanish. Of the woman captain, Aura Rhanes, the contactee described her as having a “slender” Latin- type face. She wore a “radiant red skirt, black velvet short sleeved blouse and a black beret with red trim.” After their first encounter, Bethurum was invited into the lounge area of her scout ship to talk, which he gladly accepted. Here’s a gist of their brief conversation: *** Truman: It’s beyond imagination for me to think that anybody can come from another planet. You must have tremendous generators to power such a craft as this. Aura: This is just a scout ship, or ventla, so we have no reciprocation equipment aboard. You might say this flying saucer employs a system of gravity nullification. We sidestep gravity by utilizing the Earth’s own electromagnetic lines of force as our motive power source. Truman: You look Mexican, but your uniform appears Russian. I hope you’re not Russian; because if you are, I’ll thank you to just let me go right now. Aura: No, I’m not Mexican or Russian. I’m from a place called Clarion, a city built under a pressurized dome on the far side of your planet’s Moon, the orb we know as Terra-Luna. We are initially from Abejar, a planet you know to be Venus, the second from the Sun. Your scientists will try and convince the people of your world that we don’t exist; but here we are. 70
Raymond Andrew Keller II But I won’t lie to you, Truman; we do have a socialist form of government on Abejar and we are part of an entire and extremely powerful galactic federation of planets. Truman: So what’s it like on the far side of the Moon? Aura: It’s cratered throughout, just like the side you can see. There are also ancient lava flows that have formed vast plains, covering up many older craters. There are mining operations on the Moon; and we use the lunar regolith to power many of our underground factories and also generate oxygen for our biospheres, of which there are many besides Clarion. There are also some frozen lakes that we tap for our water supply. We even run a pumping station at the largest of these lakes at the south polar region of the Moon. Truman: It sounds so wonderful, that you can do all of these things. Our scientists are always telling us that the Moon is a dead world. I’m glad to hear that it bustles with so much vibrant and human activity. Aura: And what’s more is that all of the planets in your solar system are either inhabited by indigenous life forms or colonized by Venusians and others, even some from beyond the solar system. Truman: What about wars? It seems like they never end here on Earth. Aura: Not only do we have no wars, but we have no strife whatsoever. We don’t even have any juvenile delinquency. The planet Earth is the only planet that has strife. Also, the planet Earth is the only planet that does not have interplanetary means of travel, at least so far. The Hierarchy of Light, the council that rules Abejar, has for the time being, prevented your leaders from getting hold of the technology that would permit you having an interplanetary means of travel, at least as long as there continues to be strife on Earth. This is what your leaders need to know. This is the message you are to deliver to the leaders of your world. If many speak out, things will soon change. Do not bring your imperialist and racist wars into Dominick Lucchesi, the staff artist outer space. That is our realm and we will protect it from all of for James W. Moseley’s Saucer your Earth aggressions, by any and all means necessary. News (1954-1968), sketched Truman: I can understand your fears. I’ve witnessed Commander Aura Rhanes based on the description provided him nuclear detonations from afar, looking down from some of the by contactee Truman Bethurum. mountain mesas in Nevada to the test sites below. They are Original sketch is in the Gray Barker Collection, Harrison County experimenting with an awesome force of destruction. Public Library, in Clarksburg, West Aura: So you see and know, my friend Truman, that there Virginia. is absolutely no reason to fear anybody from our spacecraft, that your authorities now refer to as UFOs. After about half an hour of discussion, Truman left the spacecraft and the company of Captain Rhanes, but all the more eager to spread the message of the space people. Therefore, in the Daily Breeze newspaper account, Truman declared that, “I was on board their craft, and they certainly never harmed me. They convinced me beyond any doubt whatsoever after the second time I saw them that there would be no harm to anybody on Earth. 71
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure They have speed beyond belief. They can be within 300 or 400 feet, and anyone who has tried to catch one says they can go with the speed of light. When I came back I had no intention of writing about my seeing a flying saucer. I didn’t know they would think my notes were of any value to anyone, as they were to myself; but finally I decided, after many people wanted them that, if they were worth so much to someone else, they were worth something to me and I had a writer to write them into a manuscript.69 “These space people told me they live in bountiful plenty on their planet, that there is no strife, and that they live to an extreme old age. Their youthful look was something to behold. The lady captain said she had children at home and that she was a grandmother. She said there was no class distinction on their planet - there were no extreme riches or no poverty, that everyone had everything. She said they have a machine similar to television, and they do not need a sending station, but can sit in the luxury of their homes and view anything from the beginning of time.70 They can read people’s minds from a great, long distance, and they know when it is safe to come, and they have to know whether we will accept them as friends before they come and help us.” Bethurum concluded his article with the following admonition: “I certainly do not believe there will be an atomic or a hydrogen war at any time; but if there is an atomic or hydrogen war, it will bring simultaneous action from Clarion and from other planets, and all the bombs will deteriorate in an instant, if warfare is declared. Those people told me they are tired of hearing the noise and continual rumbling down here on Earth. There is life on every planet; there is strife only on Earth. I believe the strife is an element the same as pouring gasoline on a fire, if it were not for strife we would have inter-planetary travel. They say they live in luxury and there is no class distinction. They have a maid in their home, she said, and the maid is thought as much of as she herself. That was the captain of the ship speaking, and she had a hand in their government. There is a power greater than we are; and they have certainly proved it in many ways.” Captain Aura Rhanes determined that Truman Bethurum had a good heart and trusted him with the assignment of monitoring nuclear test sites as he could while working at various stretches of road across the state of Nevada. While he did not spot any more of the mushroom clouds, as there were only rumblings with the tests taking place underground, he did continue to clip out any and all articles pertaining to atomic energy and nuclear bombs. Captain Rhanes once told him that, “Besides the damage being done to your genetic pool from exposure to the nuclear radiation, the inhabitants of other planets are also being affected. The resultant explosions cause waves of tachyon particles to move both forward and backward in time. Remember the special types of TV that I told you about on the other planets; well, the energy that these sets are tapping into can be seriously damaged or even completely cut off through nuclear testing on Earth. The ionized waves of tachyon particles can interfere with your planet’s electromagnetic field; and from there be transported across space and time through a phenomenon your scientists will someday better understand: magnetic reconnection with the Earth and other planets via particle transference in the solar wind. 69 70
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Fight the Power! Aura Rhanes served as an archetypal inspiration for many female revolutionaries to follow. This is a photo of the East German companion to Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara, Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, a.k.a. “Tania,” during Che’s Bolivian insurgent campaign, 1966-1967. Tania assumed many names throughout her life in the cause of communist revolution. When Che was in the jungle fighting, word was passed to him over his radio set that his beloved Tania was killed in an ambush carried out by United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-trained Bolivian military forces at 5:20 pm on 31 August 1967 while she was leading the Joaquín guerrilla column across the Río Grande at Vado del Yeso. Guevara, still struggling through the jungles close by, refused to believe the news report. He suspected it was Bolivian Army propaganda designed by the CIA to demoralize him. As it allegedly turned out, the supposed “piranha-eaten remains” of Tania were tracked down to an unmarked grave in a small pit on the periphery of the Vallegrande Bolivian Army base on 13 October 1998. Even then, more than 31 years later, the remains could not clearly be identified as belonging to the revolutionary Tania. In 1966, Tania wondered, “Will my name one day be forgotten and nothing of me remain on the Earth?” Was Tania the Clarion Aura Rhanes in disguise? Remember, Tania was also the name for one of Venusian mothership Commander Valiant Thor’s crew. Given the facts of this case, it’s not at all that improbable. If so, she continues to carry out the good fight on behalf of oppressed peoples everywhere. You go, girl! ¡Hasta la victoria final, Tania! The Time Tunnel Queen Orda decided to pay a visit to the historian Dr. Raymond Keller, resting up in his quarters from a busy day at the Library of Abejaran History. This facility is open to all Venusians: indigenous bees, Venus-born humanoids and naturalized human immigrants, of which your author was in the latter category. Dr. Keller was using the facilities there to tap into the celestial records in a crystal ice cave beneath the frigid surface of the planet Uranus. He loved his life on Venus, and discovered that he was indeed the Roman historian and poet Virgil in a previous incarnation. Throughout the ages, he continued to work hard here on Earth for the benefit of the Angelic Venusian Hierarchy of Light. Sure, he was not perfect; but who is? In many ways, the whole population of Venus was like the inhabitants found on the Island of Misfit Toys. The doctor came to understand that being a misfit is no problem. It’s downright cool. Conformity to banality is a living death. If you want anything, you just have to go for it.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure You’d think a civilization two billion years old- by Earth time-would have a more sophisticated apparatus than a simple bell to indicate that you had some company at the door. Lady Orda arrived outside my door and just tinkled the small bell. She shouted out, “It’s me, Debbie, Cosmic Ray!” adding that “Wow! I’ve got some good news for you.” “Come on in, Lady Orda.” With that, she just mumbled something in the Basque language, rubbed her thumb over a personalized nimbus, and precipitated her molecular structure. In other words, she walked right through the wall. “Neato, Lady Orda! Can I do that, too?” Dorothy: “Oh - You’re a very bad man!” “Oh, yes, but you’ll have to school with me or the Professor Marvel: “Oh, no my dear. I’m a very good man. I’m just a very bad Wizard.” Metrons before we can activate your own nimbus.” See http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/File:Man“Hmmmm. Nimbus control…. Must be a Second behind-the-curtain.jpg. Amendment thing.” “Very funny, Coz.” “What’s the good news, Lady Orda? Are we going back to Earth to a Lady Gaga concert in Cali? I think that if we hurry, we won’t miss the Born This Way setlist at the Staples Center in LA.”71 “No such luck there, Coz. But I’m overriding the Metrons. You can use the Cyther Dome timescope for your historical research. But I have to go with you.” “Let’s go, Debbie, new Queen of Outer Space. You’re a whole lot prettier than Zsa Zsa Gabor, I want you to know. In fact, you sort of look like Lady Gaga.” “Errr, I guess I’ll take that as a complement. Let’s go to the Cyther Dome now as the Metrons are still there, monitoring the monotonous flow of time, as usual. Let’s rock their world, Cosmic Ray!” “I’ll be changed in a jiff, Lady Orda.” With that, the Cosmic Ray was donning the black garb of the temple chronologists. The emblem of the temple is the labarum, a symbol that on Earth traces back to the start of the infusion of the Basque Pyrenees region into the Roman Empire under the reign of the first emperor Emblem of the United Venusian Republics, Octavian Augustus, a direct descendant of Lady Venus, the labarum’s four heads represent continued sometime around 30 B.C.E. It is also representative of enlightenment, zest for living, spiritual ascendancy and the quest for beauty in all of all peoples who have come to pledge their allegiance creation. to the planet Abejar, the Divine Feminine (the Grand Hive) or the principles accentuated by the Goddess Venus, these being continued enlightenment, zest for living, spiritual ascendancy and the quest for beauty in all of creation. Debbie, the Queen Bee, was already dressed for the occasion. “All set, Coz?” 71
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Raymond Andrew Keller II “All set, Deb. But damn, we look like vampires! Why do we have to wear black? Was Johnny Cash a Venusian?” “When we fire up the Cyther Dome, Cosmic Ray, we have to make sure that the orb’s outside temperature is set near absolute zero. It has something to do with flash freezing the outer shell before turning on the timescope, which somehow creates a temporal stasis field in the neutron flow. That’s all I know about it. We wear the black to keep from becoming popsicles, I think. Well, that’s all I know, really Coz, really…. But if we have any problems, we can always make a call to the COMCAST cable guy. And as to Johnny Cash, he was one of us. Just listen to the Highwayman72 and you’ll understand.” “Now we’re cooking with gas!” Venus is a hot planet... Queen Orda was happy to be alone with the Cosmic Ray. She gave him a high-five with the palm of her left hand to his left hand’s palm, thereby slightly modifying the traditional Venusian greeting, and then matched her right palm as well to that of the professor. “Wh…. What are you doing, Queen Orda?,” he hesitatingly asked, knowing perfectly well what she was up to. She didn’t say anything, now matching her right palm to his and pushing him against the wall, pinning him to it and interlocking her long fingers ever so tightly with his on both hands... I suppose it’s not good to get on the wrong side of the Queen Bee. After an indeterminate amount of time,73 the Queen and the “Kwicky Koala” were again 72 73
Highwayman, written by Jimmy Webb, performed by the Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson), Columbia Records, New York, New York, 1985. On Venus, the structure of the beehive is seen as the highest form of social organization. Therefore, the human population inhabiting Venus long ago opted to adapt their lifestyles and social organization to match that of the indigenous honey bees in the hopes of assuring their survival in the midst of a seemingly very hostile planet. No easy task, you might be thinking. And right you are, for the reorganization of human societies to conform to the social patterns of a bee hive required the institution of unprecedented changes. To ensure diversity in the planet Venus’ human population in this type of situation required the collection of varied genetic samples from males of those worlds in our galaxy where human life has evolved. These were cryogenically frozen and preserved for later fertilization of the selected queen’s eggs, both natural and cloned. However, from an analysis of the diverse male strands of collected DNA, as directed and supervised by the Supreme Science Council, it appears as though the Venusian sex technicians were able to accurately determine from each batch of succeeding eggs, the general direction each one would most likely follow in life, i.e. those eggs that would produce farmers, laborers, professors, servants, soldiers, etc. In the incubation chambers, the eggs are carefully laid within beds of the very food they will sustain themselves with throughout formative stages of development. For the technical workers, the sundry eggs gave clear indications early on just who would be most capable to assume jobs on behalf of the Venusian Star Fleet in outer space. Coinciding with the saying that, “You are what you consume,” this Venus scholar, Nikola Tesla, R. M. Farley and others have taken note that the fertilized eggs, when fully matured in the incubation chambers, are moved to those parts of Venus or the Galactic Federation where they will later be trained in accordance with how their respective lives will be lived out. Those that will emerge as space explorers, for example, are taken to the academy on the cloaked moon of Neith. But not only is one’s career path so established far in advance, but so is an individual’s sex. Since the days of the Aldeberan colonization, only enough males are produced to meet the quota required in the queen’s entourage. Therefore, the rest of the royal offspring are destined to become non-reproducing females. So whenever a queen would ascend to the planetary systems at the Galactic Core, the Supreme Science Council must convene in order to select those enhanced and fertilized ova whose alimentation source can be changed to produce fully developed females, or potential queens. The male and female population of Venus can be augmented from time to time by the infusion of outside human DNA, to ensure greater biodiversity and enhance survivability of the human species on the planet. Unlike the operation of an actually honeybee hive, however, those potential queens not selected are allowed to live and serve in the chosen one’s entourage. After the queen’s ascension to the Kolob star system, one of the remaining potential queens or an incorporated female from throughout the Galactic realm, to include Earth, will be voted in by the other females as the new reigning queen. For Tesla’s recommendations on such a societal restructuring in accordance with the organization of a bee hive, please see John B. Kennedy, “When Woman is Boss: An Interview with Nikola Tesla,” 30 January 1926, Colliers magazine, New York, New York. Science
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure properly dressed for embarking upon their greatest adventure yet. In all the prior exertions, the Cosmic Ray had taken off his eye glasses and placed them a reasonable distance away, maybe an arm’s length on the edge of a sofa. Somehow either he or the Queen Bee had rolled over them, breaking the frame. When he was getting redressed, the Cosmic One noted the broken pair of glasses. “What am I going to do now, since I can’t see properly?” he asked the current reigning queen. To this Queen Orda twisted her left hand around and crooked her index finger, putting it under the Cosmic One’s chin and pulling his face toward hers. She inched ever closer to him and planted a soft kiss across his somewhat sulphur-cracked lips, resulting from the dry volcanic, ash-laden air surrounding the City Azure. Since the last time the Cosmic Ray visited the temple for the ascension of the new queen, there had been some rumblings and minor eruptions with some of the smaller volcanoes in the Victoria Range. The Cosmic Ray was a little sad because those glasses were the perfect prescription and had served him so well for many years and he was concerned that he might miss something important once the time probe was activated in the Cyther Dome. “Let me see those glasses,” said the Queen. The Cosmic Ray handed them over and the Queen just rubbed the fingers of her left hand gently over the left side broken plastic of the frame. The stem that sits over the ear seemed to glow red for a brief second at the juncture where it snapped, and it even smoked a little. The Queen’s hands were like a soldering iron. “Here you go,” said Queen Orda, “They’re now even better than new.” “Wow! Many thanks, my Queen. MacGyver could have found a friend like you quite useful on many of his assignments.74 Looks like I won’t even have to bother with getting out the eyeglasses repair kit when I return to my apartment back up on the eleventh floor in Wuxi.” “Hmmm…. Next time I’ll have to visit you there, rather than on the roof.” We both chuckled. Then Lady Orda activated her nimbus, facilitating a super luminal orb right in the apartment. The light encased us in a bubble. We precipitated the walls and flew off into the orange-tinted sky of planet Abejar toward the Royal Venusians are curious about our mating Palace and the adjacent Cyther Dome. The Cosmic habits here on Earth. In many ways, they actually envy us. See http://cigarettesdigest. Ray and Lady Orda were about to embark on their first com/beautiful-women-smoking. excellent adventure, provided we don’t count our more intimate encounter.
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fiction author in the Futurist school of thought, Ralph Milne Farley, also envisioned a Venus populated with highly intelligent social insects structuring their society along similar lines in Radio Man (New York, New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1924). In the novel, radio engineer Myles Cabot accidentally transmits himself to the planet Venus, whence he finds himself both naked and perplexed on a mysterious world where each unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. The human population is a slave race eugenically brought about by the monster ants that rule the cloudy sphere. MacGyver was a popular television program from 1985-1992, written by Lee David Zotoff and starring Richard Dean Anderson; it dealt with the adventures of a secret agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness. It was produced in the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California.
Raymond Andrew Keller II Important science tip for future astronauts to Venus: The well- pampered Queen Bee is injected with some kinds of pheromones that make her irresistible to all men, and some women, too. There is no known antidote. Coupled with her natural magnetism and beauty, Lady Orda is truly a representative queen for Venus and all of the Intergalactic Federation of Light, over which she presides. Thinking of how unfortunate it was that they didn’t sell cigarettes anywhere on the planet Abejar, when I asked the Queen of Outer Space if she smoked after sex, she haughtily replied, “I don’t know, Cosmic Ray. I haven’t checked down there for that.” Oops! We all know about Murphy’s Law. If something can go wrong, it will. What the Cosmic One and Lady Orda came to discover is that this applies to Venus as well as Earth. Back in 1954 in the deserts of the American southwest, Truman Bethurum continues to keep the scrapbook and journal that was requested by the ardent revolutionary space traveler Aura Rhanes almost two years prior. Here is an extract of an Associated Press article, datelined Washington, D.C., for 14 May 1954 that Bethurum pasted into his scrapbook, as it was published in the Friday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, of the same date: U.S. Explodes Fourth H-Bomb, Ends Successful Pacific Tests Washington (AP)- The United States exploded its fourth- and perhaps its fifth- hydrogen bomb of the year during the last few days, it was reported Thursday night. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Department of Defense jointly announced successful completion of the 1954 series of “thermonuclear weapons” tests in the Pacific. There was no mention of how many explosions there were. Three blasts previously have been reported, on March 1, March 26 and April 6. (Italics are mine. –R.K.) And was understood there has been at least one more blast during the last week or so. There are indications that, while the fourth explosion of the year went off at the Bikini Proving Ground, a fifth shot could have been made at Eniwetok Atoll. The joint announcement declared the tests were successful in the development of thermonuclear weapons. Further it called these tests essential to national security and said they “contributed materially” to the security of the United States and the whole free world. The announcement came is a joint statement from Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the AEC, and Secretary of Defense Wilson. The statement said: “The 1954 series of thermonuclear tests at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Proving Ground has been completed…. “The tests being concluded, within a few days sea and air traffic may be safely resumed within the ‘warning area,’ which was set up for safety purposes for the time when the tests were taking place. Official notice to airmen and mariners will be published.” So it was important for airmen and mariners even back in 1954 to wait out the atmospheric clearing following such nuclear detonations before embarking on any journey. But given the nature of radiation, wouldn’t it also make sense for those dealing with chrono-tech to take the same precautions? The timescope in the Cyther Dome, while allowing its operators to peel back the curtain of history in order to view events as they were taking place in the past while monitoring the slip stream of time itself, does not actually exert enough power to snap the 77
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure bonds connecting it to its origination point in the space-time continuum. The Metrons knew about this, however, and maintained as intricate information as possible about nuclear testing and detonation dates and times before allowing anyone to get even close to an operational timescope or time probe. Should anyone be inside such a device, riding the oscillating waves of the time flow when such weapons were set off, the fluxing tachyon particles from an atomic or nuclear event, moving both forward and backward in space and time, would cross streams and possibly place you or anyone else in the probe into a type of phantom zone, or maybe even just zap you or your friend out of existence. That’s pretty bad, you know, as even Kal-El or his super cousin, Kara Zor-El, would have a hard time getting out of the phantom zone, if some Kryptonian nemesis managed to exile them to that nebulous region. The Queen stridently swung open the great doors of the Cyther Dome. “Attendants of Kronos, her me now!” she demanded. At that, all of the Metrons came scurrying over to Lady Orda to find out what was the matter. The first to arrive in the proximity of Lady Orda was an older but somewhat intimidated Norcan who inquired of her. “My Queen! I am at your service, what is it that is required?” “I realize that you used up our supply of Cytherium75 in the Kolob ascension ceremonies of Queen Mazu. But do you have any left, just for one ride in the time probe and a peek through its timescope for me and Virgil?” All of the temple workers were somewhat dazed by this request from such a relatively new queen. Shouldn’t she be back in her royal quarters, learning about the arts of diplomacy and promoting the interests of the Federation? The workers just looked up and down at each other, waiting for one among them to say something that might put off this impetuous queen. Finally, the chief archon among them spoke up, “My Queen, I’d be delighted to check on that for you.” 75
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Cytherium is a radioactive metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 98. On Earth we know it as Californium because the element was first made in 1950 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, by bombarding Curium with alpha particles (helium-4 ions). It is an actinide element, being the sixth transuranium element to be synthesized, and has the second-highest atomic mass of all the elements that have been produced in amounts large enough to see with the unaided eye (after Einsteinium). It actually exists in two crystalline forms, but under normal pressure, of course. One such form can be found above and one below 900°C (1,650°F). Interestingly, there is yet a third form existing at high pressure. Cytherium slowly tarnishes when exposed to air at room temperature. So when used in the temple at Azure, the Metrons must make sure that its use in the timescope is done in the lowest possible temperatures. In can be chemically bonded in at least three ways and has a half-life of 898years. While this short half-life means the element is not found in any significant quantities in the Earth’s crust, on Venus it is a little more abundant due to varying but slightly higher atmospheric pressures. Some isotopes of Cytherium have are known to have half-lives at the equivalent of about 2.65 Earth years. Therefore, despite being a transuranium element, it actually has many practical applications. To the Venusians, the most important of these is Cytherium’s capability of exploiting the properties of some of its isotopes to emit neutrons. For example, Cytherium can be used to help start up nuclear reactors. It is also used as a source of neutrons when studying materials with neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopy. Additionally, it can be utilized in the nuclear synthesis of higher mass elements like Ununoctium (element118), so-called here on Earth that was synthesized by bombarding Californium-249 atoms with Calcium-48 ions. Naturally, it comes as no surprise to learn that Cytherium, this very pliable element, is also put to good use in powering the neutron pulse engines of the massive Venusian motherships as well as powering up all krono-mechanisms. Important safety tip, Venusians and humans engaging in time travel activities need to keep in mind that there are certain radiological concerns associated with the use of Cytherium/Californium, most notably the element’s ability to disrupt the formation of red blood cells by bioaccumulating in skeletal tissue. In other words, even the stasis field will start to disintegrate after the space of a few hours. The field can, however, maintain its integrity a little longer under conditions of darkness. For additional information on the advanced applications of Californium in the creation of the multiplicity of neutrons through the basic process of crysallography, or “breaking on through to the other side,” as Jim Morrison might say, please consult Seaborg, Glenn T.; Loveland, Walter D., The Elements Beyond Uranium (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1990); and Martin, R. C.; Knauer, J. B.; Balo, P. A. (1999), “Production, Distribution, and Applications of Californium-252 Neutron Sources,” Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 53 (4–5): 785–92.
Raymond Andrew Keller II “By all means, Master Parvec; but keep in mind that we don’t have a semi-rotational period.” When Parvec returned he had a small Cytherium containment tube. “Lord Dysmas telepathically informed us of your desires as well as his own that we not impede your efforts; so we aren’t going to try and dissuade you, Our Most Noble Queen. We realize that Virgil has been a chronographer himself before embarking on his Terran incarnations and that he is your apprentice to become an archon, so we trust he’ll prove a quick learner.” With that Parvec gently placed the small cylinder into the hand of the Queen, who in turn passed it like a baton to the Cosmic Ray. “Let’s go, Coz. Adventure awaits us just ahead, or behind…. or whatever the case may be. I sense you’re a little concerned, so here’s a brief tutorial: It pretty much acts like an orb, that you have seen me operate many times. Here is your personal orb, or nimbus, Cosmic Ray. It is called thusly because of its halo, lighting effects. You’ve always had a fetish about trains, so it’s in the form of an 1876 railroad watch modified with a lead-encased Cytherium neutron activator and gravitational nullifier. Like my own nimbus, it’s thought activated while chained to the cylinder and operational in space or a stasis field, but voice activated in a planetary atmosphere, and cued specifically to your own aural pattern. Just attach it to the black cap of your cylinder at the bottom. So where and when are we going?” “I’d like to check out 1954 California, that convention you showed up at with George Adamski!” “We can’t do that, Coz. There’s just too much Whether time traveling or ghost busting, danger in being at the same place in the same time as a please be sure and keep your hands, and proton streams, to yourself. See http:// younger version of myself. Remember that scene from www.footjoy.com/community/discussions/ Ghostbusters, where Egon tells Venkman what could f/22/t/12560.aspx. happen if they ‘crossed streams?’” (Note: Here’s a transcript of that scene, for the reader’s convenience. –R. K.) Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you. Dr. Peter Venkman: What? Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams. Dr. Peter Venkman: Why? Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad. Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad?” Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Dr. Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal. Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.76
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure “Most definitely, Debbie, how can I forget that scene? It was among the best ones in the whole film…. with the line about the ‘full protonic reversal.’ That was rich, really rich. But I see what you mean; we certainly can’t afford to let that happen with our universe, although Kurt Vonnegut says it has already happened more times than we’d really care to think, and always will. Some space pilot had an accident on Tralfamadore, some difficulties with his fuel supply. Wouldn’t doubt that it was Californium, giving what I now know.” “So glad we got that cleared up. So how about the other George,…. Van Tassel’s First Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention out at Giant Rock? I was far away then, in Europe, getting things lined up for Adamski on his coming European tour. I was helping Lou Zinnstag with all arrangements for restaurants, hotels, etc. She’s that archetypal psychologist Carl Jung’s second cousin. George was still touring out east.” “That would be great, Debbie. That was also three months before I was born, so no problem on my part either. Like they used to say in the First Infantry Division (Forward) when I was stationed in Gőppingen, Germany, ‘Let’s make it happen!’” The Cosmic Ray and Queen Orda took their positions on a white, circular and molded contour seat occupying the center of a translucent bubble. Making sure my watch chain was affixed to the powerful Cytherium containment rod, I inserted it into a small aperture in the middle of the seat section of the bubble. Then the sphere became frosted over in an encasement of hard ice and crusty white snow; but while we were inside it we were briefly engulfed in a sea of background radiation and static, like you might have seen on an old VHF television channel not tuned to any broadcast, or after the playing of the national anthem and station sign off. But we were literally swimming in it, like that girl in the TV set on the Poltergeist77 movie. Suddenly, everything blinked out of existence except the dark night sky over an encampment on the northern perimeter of the Giant Rock at George Van Tassel’s Landers’ Field Airport. My heart was palpitating wildly. Queen Orda and I just broke through the time barrier as easily as if we were opening a door, although technically we were still bi-located in the Cyther Dome back on Abejar. We were merely suspended in the stasis field and enjoying the view. One dab of the Californium isotope in the cylinder was doing its thing. “Cloaking secure and hover mode,” I spoke confidently to the orb. “You’re doing good, Ray. I think it’s safe to descend a little more so we can get a closer peek at the campers.” It was Saturday, 3 April 1954 around 11:40 p.m. There was a full Moon so visibility was high. We were about 17 miles out from Yucca Valley and the flying saucer fans were packing it in for the night to get some sleep for the historic convention in the morning. As they started and then tended their campfires, they sat in the light of the flames and glowing embers, sharing stories of contact with Venusians and other denizens of outer space. There was a gentleman in an aviation mechanic’s outfit who appeared to be making the rounds to all the campsites and momentarily speaking with the conventioneers at each one. I surmised that this must be the legendary George Van Tassel. “Descend, 1,000 meters above ground level.” The orb dipped and leveled off, remaining stationary over the desert floor at 1,000 meters. Lady Orda spoke: “Correction, 2,000 meters.” She added, “Sorry, Ray, with the two of us I have to allow for extra time, just in case.” 77
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The True Origin of “Supergirl” Queen Orda yelled to the Cosmic Ray, “Remove the Cytherium, quick!” The Cosmic Ray grabbed the rod from the console and stuffed it into his pocket, still attached at the base to his nimbus. With this, the globe of the time probe completely crumbled, with the flakes dropping off into the thin night air. The rest of the apparatus was tumbling to the ground below. “Look out!” the Cosmic Ray yelled to the couple below. They heard him and got out of the way of the falling debris. Queen Orda reached her right hand across the console and took the Cosmic Ray’s left hand. They clenched each other’s hands tightly, tilted forward into the cold and open desert air, and then they jumped together, hand-in-hand, to the orange-glowing but rock strewn surface below. The queen projected an invisible but thick electronic mattress covering about 30 square feet on the ground beneath them; so when our two inadvertent krononauts touched down they did so in a manner quite softly. “You handled that quite well, Cosmic Ray. If we ever make it back to Abejar in our own timeline, I’d be proud to support your ascension to the status of an archon.” “Thanks to you, my Queen, we are still alive!” noted the Coz, as he leaned over to lightly kiss Queen Orda on her delicate lips. 81
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure The couple came running over, emerging from the darkness. The man said, “We saw the whole thing! Are you two alright?” “Why yes, thank you.” “You speak our language,” said the woman. “But how can that be? Aren’t you beings from another planet?” Queen Orda moved closer to me and nudged me in my left side with her elbow. I took the hint and replied to the woman, “Oh, yes. We are from the Venus space platform called Argo City. I’m a scientist, Zor-El, and this is my daughter and beautiful assistant, Kara. We have been monitoring your radio and television broadcasts and have come to learn your language quite well.” “I’m Pal Garrett and this is my wife Dixie. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” Queen Orda then spoke up. “Yes, the feeling is mutual. Look, I see that you are really good people, Pal and Dixie; so can you please help us? Can you get us out of here before we start gathering a crowd?” “Why, yes,” said Pal. “You two go about 500 feet in that direction and you’ll run into our campsite. There’s a jeep parked right next to the tent. You both look to be our sizes, so help yourselves to any of our clothes that fit.” “Thank you very much,” the queen and I said almost in unison. “This is such an honor. Dixie and I are delighted to help. After all, we can’t have you go looking like that, especially around here. These are superstitious people. They might mistake you for fallen angels.” There was a slight pause, and then Pal reluctantly asked, “Er, uh, you aren’t angels, or space gods, are you?” “No, we’re just your typical run-of-the-mill Venusian astronauts,” I said. Then Dixie interreupted with, “You see, Pal. Didn’t I tell you? Adamski said that the Venusians were basically like us Earthlings, just living a lot longer.” “Sorry, honey. You were right all along. I guess this proves it.” “We’ll be with you shortly,” said Dixie, quite anxiously. “We’ll just wait to tell the Air Force people, when they get here, that we’re just spectators that saw some college kids that were setting off some model rockets and fireworks. I hope that will dissuade them enough.” “Me, too. But there’s something we have to do first,” said the queen, adding that, “We have to destroy all the evidence. We can’t let anything of the craft get into the hands of the Earth authorities. Father Zor, what do you recommend we do?” “Well, Kara, I think we should just blow it all up to smithereens. The Garretts’ story about the pyrotechnics sounds just as good as any other excuse I’ve ever been privy to so far and a few more explosions will only add to the credibility of their account.” With that, Pal took out of his satchel a 1954 Baldina camera with a flash attachment. “Do you mind, Dr. Zor, if I take a photograph of you and Kara?” As I definitely didn’t want to get on the bad side of these good people, I reluctantly agreed. “Just so long as it’s for a personal memento,” I added. Queen Orda cast a weary look in my direction, followed by rolling her eyes. “I can honor that,” replied Pal as he took the photograph at that the same time that I activated my nimbus and disintegrated the remains of the time probe with an invisible projection of neutrino energy generated by the remaining Californium isotope in the lead enclosing tube. Back in the tent, Queen Orda and I rummaged through the Garretts’ duffel bag and suitcase, coming up with some suitable clothing to blend in to our new surroundings. Of course, 82
Raymond Andrew Keller II we realized that the Garretts weren’t exactly fashionistas; but I found a regular pair of Levi’s and a red plaid shirt and Lady Orda came up with a red cotton shirt and a sexy pair of shorts. She kept the white pantaloons she was wearing under her black Venusian slacks, since these did not have any distinctive Venusian markings, and especially since it might get colder toward evening. We then quickly stripped off our Venusian black temple clothing and tried on our new 1954 duds. They fit nicely on Queen Orda; although they were a bit snug on me. Anyway, they’d have to do for now; and perhaps I could lose a little weight in the next few days that would help take care of the fitting problem. Satisfied with our new fashion statement and being sufficiently in 1954 vogue, we both gathered up our old clothes and tossed them into the campfire outside the tent. The reinforced Venusian fabrics would not easily burn, so I grabbed a gas can sitting at the side of the Garretts’ jeep and doused the clothing profusely with it. The flames of the campfire shot up like a bonfire. Even with that, the clothing was still somewhat recognizable. “WTF,” I exclaimed in my frustration; so Queen Orda took out her silver, tennis ball-shaped nimbus, rubbed it, and green Venusian heat rays were emitted through her eyes that zapped the clothing out of existence. “I don’t think there’s anything from Venus or Earth of 2013 that conforms to this time, do you, Cosmic Ray?” asked the queen. “I don’t think so,” I mused, adding that, “And if Lady Gaga showed up in that meat dress that she wore at the 2010 MTV Awards, they’d probably barbecue her along with it.” “What is it with you and Lady Gaga, Coz? Maybe we ought to approach her, when we get back, and see if she wants to become a Venusian, too.” “We ought to, my Queen. She’d make an outstanding Venusian. I think we Venusians are a lot like the Masons here on Earth. To be one you have to know one.” “All I know, Coz, is that I like bacon with eggs at breakfast; but I’m a Hollywood seamstress, and I don’t see how Gaga could ever get away with putting bacon or any other meat in a dress, even if it was a just a costume.” The queen and I weren’t paying much attention to the time. After destroying the probe, we totally ran out of that as a viable commodity. Suddenly the flap of the tent swung open from the outside and Dixie poked her head in. “Coming along OK, Zor and Kara? Anything we can do for you two?” “No, we’re done now. Thank you for all of your help,” I said. “But what’s going on out there, Dixie?” I inquired. “You can rest now, the two of you. Pal and I told the Air Force investigators that there were some college kids out there setting off sky rockets and fireworks. They scribbled it down in a notebook and made their way back to the main airport campground with some gas lanterns. I think they were satisfied. They said they would inform Mr. Van Tassel, the press and anyone else that wants to know in the morning.” “Thanks, Dixie, you’re a life saver,” replied Kara. Then Pal entered the tent with some extra blankets and an extra sleeping bag from the jeep. “I brought these just in case some others from our Daniel Fry saucer club showed up tonight. Fortunately, they didn’t, so you two will have to share this one bag.” “Thanks, Pal. This is terrific. Kara and I don’t know how to repay you.” “Let’s just catch some sleep for now,” said Pal, adding that, “We’ll have plenty of time to think about that tomorrow.” “You’re so right, Pal. Sufficient to the day are the problems thereof….”
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Everyone then bid their “good-nights.” It was reminiscent of a scene from the Waltons TV show. “….Good night, Father Zor.” “Good night, Daughter Kara.” Ufologist, artist, comic book and science fiction writer, Otto Binder (26 August 1911 – 13 October 1974),78 created the characters of Supergirl and the members of the 30th century Legion of Super-Heroes, who utilize a time bubble such as the one depicted here and on the previous page to traverse the multiverse. The Garretts’ story, newsclippings, flying saucer club notes and photographs eventually found their way to New Jersey UFO investigator August C. Roberts from Adamski associate Carol A. Honey of Pasadena, California (1928-2007). Roberts forwarded them to his Supergirl, a creation of ufologist Otto friend and associate Otto Binder in the late 1950s for Binder, has been saving the multiverse since See http://comicvine.gamespot.com/ inclusion in a UFO book that they were both working 1959. time-bubble/4055-47355/images/. on, that never got published, of which I have a copy. The first Supergirl story appeared in Action Comics number 252, May 1959. The Cosmic Ray, interestingly, has purchased an issue of every comic book featuring Supergirl ever published. He had no other reason to suspect- beside pure geekinesswhy he was so infatuated with Supergirl and going to such great lengths to save up all the issues of Action, Supergirl (through many incarnations), the Legion of Super-Heroes, Adventure and many other comic book titles, until the Garretts’ photos and materials from Otto Binder’s personal files were hand-delivered to him in February 2016 by a friend of George Adamski who lived with the contactee on his ashram, now in her 90s, at an “new age” convention in a large mid-western city where I was speaking and presenting a power point on my book, Venus Rising. So the Garretts kept their word about the event and made sure that others who followed them with this material did as well. Fortunately, this is the only time paradox known to have emerged from the incident. There could be others, due to the socalled “butterfly effect;” so we’ll have to pray and just keep our fingers crossed. As an aside, the Cosmic Ray The time traveling Queen of Outer Space, sincerely hopes that the CW television network won’t Lady Orda, proved to be the inspiration for the comic book Supergirl. This character is cancel the Adventures of Supergirl, because naturally the cousin of Superman and first appeared in it’s his favorite program. the May 1959 issue of DC’s Action Comics. See http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Action_ Comics_Vol_1_252. 78
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The “Cosmic Ray” Keller and the “Queen of Outer Space” Lady Orda blow up the remains of the Venusian time probe. Agents of the Air Force Office of Scientific Investigations (AFOSI) were in the area at the time. Pal and Dixie Garrett of Paradise, California, created the cover story for this event. Being on vacation at Giant Rock (Landers Field), the Garretts claimed they witnessed some Caltech students blowing up rockets in the desert to put a scare into those attendees of the First Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention. The AFOSI agents bought the story and presented it to the press. Photo above was taken by Pal Garrett. Of course, the temperature dipped throughout the night, so the Postum and the hot breakfast really served to warm us up in the morning. By 9:00 a.m. the temperature was already up to around 50 degrees Fahrenheit on the desert floor and as the Sun would rise, the temperature would go up by another 15 degrees. So overall, it was a nice day for the first flying saucer jamboree. We walked with the Garretts over to the stand that George Van Tassel, the owner of the airport and and the author of the best-selling book, I Rode a Flying Saucer, erected in front of the Giant Rock. The queen remarked, “I will keep a look out for people that I met back in these days, people I can trust. There may even be some other Venusians here. But even if there isn’t, I’m sure there will be other attendees who can lead us to them.” There were about 2,000 to 2,500 flying saucer fans gathered around the stand. Everyone was talking about the huge fireball that lit up the sky last night and left them all in such an uproar. At daybreak, Van Tassel had taken a contingent of volunteer convention workers and some other attendees out to the site of the desert explosion and fire, but all they could see was a patch of scorched desert shrubbery.
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Last night, at about 14 minutes to midnight, an object the size of a full moon and the color of an orange blazed brilliantly for two full seconds and then disappeared. “There goes one!” voices shrieked from scores of sleeping bags along the edge of Giant Rock Airport. And then a little time after that, a distinct concussion echoed over the once volcanic region, shaking car windows and awakening convention delegates inside who had slept through the big show. Many of the attendees firmly believed that this was a “sign” that they were in the correct area and ready for the landing of a gigantic, 300-foot “Constellation” saucer that would take them on an excursion to the planet Venus. Of course, there were some skeptics in the crowd, mostly curiosity seekers who just came out to the desert to find out what this flying saucer mania was really all about. Some of these affirmed that the explosion was the result of a star shell from the nearby Marine base, or maybe a weather balloon rigged with hydrogen and a time fuse as some kind of practical joke. No matter what it was, there was no doubt that it provided the right eerie touch to the strange meeting of the minds on this wind-swept desert where Van Tassel says a “Ronald-Colemanish” character named Solganda invited him aboard a flying saucer last 24 August. Ronald Coleman was the Academy Awards winning actor who starred as the explorer in Lost Horizon, the 1937 Frank Capra-directed epic that was so endeared by Van Tassel and other contactees of the time, who were also steeped in Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophy. Van Tassel’s book largely relates what he learned from the extraterrestrial Solganda about the “super beings” or “space gods” of an “Adamic race” that inhabit other planets of our solar system and pilot the flying saucers in our atmosphere. After the crowd calmed down, the convention was opened. Van Tassel explained a little about this Adamic race: “Our solar system is drifting through space into a segment of the universe chartered by the Adamics, who have organized a confederation of 51 solar systems and 601 planets. “This makes ‘em unhappy, because what with our messing around with hydrogen bombs, they fear we’re going to blow everything up real completely, like what happened to Moldek. “Moldek was another planet of our solar system where they got to fooling around splitting atoms when poof!, up she went. That tilted the Earth on its axis, causing the Ice Age, dried up Mars and left a lot of asteroids floating around in space. “These people often take human forms, and visit Earth to try to keep things in order. There are 10,000,000 Adamics running around in human form-one might even be you.” Van Tassel explained that he received the go-ahead to hold the convention at Giant Rock from Solganda, because the “electricity is just right” at this location. He also said that Solganda gave him a sort of “half-way” promise that he would show up at the convention with his 300foot Constellation-class saucer to “give the folks a hope around the field,” so to speak. Of this, one reporter commented that, “But the best they (the Venusians) could do was the fireball stunt, which pleased the early arrivals who stayed overnight Saturday for the big show Sunday.”80 Van Tassel, however, disputed this mocking attitude toward the fireball, that he said may have been a “nullifier,” or “one of the devices that the Adamics shoot off to rid our atmosphere of radioactive stuff from the H-bomb blasts.” However, Van Tassel’s explanation did not agree with that offered by George Hunt Williamson, then 27 years old of Prescott, Arizona, and one of the witnesses to George Adamski’s encounter with Orthon on 20 November 1952, According to Williamson, who also claims to be in direct radio contact with Venusians since August 1952, 80
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Chapter 5: Paradise, California
Children at the dawn of the atomic and space ages were fascinated with the flying saucer phenomenon, asking questions such as: “What are the flying saucers?” and “Where did they come from?” Unlike the boy with this toy flying saucer, the Venusians must exercise caution when utilizing the vast powers of Dimension X to propel their powerful motherships and other space vehicles, or power up their equipment, as they could accidentally warp the very matrix of the space-time continuum here on Earth, significantly altering the path of human history. See https://www.pinterest.com/ZombieAtomica/atomic-age/.
It seems that somewhere in the airspace over the small town of Paradise, California, there is a window that extraterrestrials and ultra-dimensional beings can utilize in setting their spacecraft on a flight path leading to sundry destinations in the Golden State and further on in the American West. Since the flying saucers, coming primarily from the planet Venus, have been arriving in greater numbers since the dawn of both our atomic and space ages, inaugurated respectively by the detonation of the first atom bomb at the Trinity testing site in New Mexico in 1945 and the bouncing of radar beams off the Moon in the subsequent year as part of Project Diana out of Monmouth, New Jersey, Paradise has become the focal point for all of this intensification of UFO activity on Earth. Just what is it about Paradise that the extraterrestrials/ultra-dimensionals find so attractive? One of the first to ponder that question and proffer some answers is the prominent Native American contactee, Krsanna Duran of Missoula, Montana. Krsanna and I were brought together through the auspices of Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a retired professor emeritus of the University of Wyoming at Laramie, a lifelong student of the flying saucer enigma, one of the first, fullyaccredited scientific investigators of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), and a contactee himself. Dr. Sprinkle had a hunch that Krsanna and I would constitute a powerhouse in the universe of ufology, daring to go where no one has gone before in search of the truth, and when finding it, not being afraid to disseminate it to the public at large. We would “just let the chips fall where they may,” so to speak. And in contrast to some others in the field, 91
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure neither Krsanna nor I have started some new religion or requested any monies from anyone beyond the cost of purchasing a book, i.e. no ongoing programs, no channeling of entities, or membership in any doctrinaire organizations. While presenting serious information, to include speculation about flying saucers and their origins, the two of us have assiduously avoided the creation or perpetuation of any cults. A futurist and developer of the TimeStar model of planetary time-space cycles, Krsanna Duran is a UFO experiencer and student of Trans-Himalayan adepts.81 She has a uniquely inspired method of forecasting planetary, solar, and galactic interactions as a cohesive, whole system with synthesis of ancient and modern models of time, space and reality. She has researched crop circles since 1993, finding correlations with planetary and human energetic conditions. She balances an innate sense of pragmatism in contacts with time travelers and extraterrestrial sources. Krsanna and mentoring contactee Ida Kannenberg shared mutual experiences with time travelers from Atlantis in contemporary UFO contacts. Krsanna Duran was born and raised in a traditional Christian home in Oklahoma, although her understanding of the universe has since grown to be more expansive of concepts and inclusive of various peoples and traditions. A Southern Cherokee descendant of Stand Watie’s Cherokee Cavaliers, she is an advocate of Indian education and indigenous peoples and cultures. Dr. Sprinkle, realizing that the Cosmic Ray and Krsanna, Theosophists that grew to embrace the benevolent forces of the universe and transcend their own backgrounds, would be the perfect selections for messengers in imparting this breakthrough information of celestial importance. Krsanna Duran, being the premier paranormal/UFO investigator and Native American activist, provides us with the requisite tools to make the connections with a vast array of seemingly disparate phenomenon. Going beyond mere chronologies of mysterious “lights in the sky” reports, so typical of many contemporary ufologists, Duran carefully selected those UFO cases directly tied to the fulfillment of prophecies made long ago by the seers among various ethnic groups, particularly Native Americans. Other phenomena considered and linked in her investigations and writings include the sundry ages of humankind on the Earth, the influence of numerous extraterrestrial civilizations in our cosmic development and continuing evolution, and the interconnectivity of all life throughout the Omniverse. Infused with a healthy dose of Theosophy, her latest book, Web of Life, is essential reading for anyone seeking to attain an accurate knowledge about the UFO phenomenon and its importance for our times. Dr. Leo Sprinkle of also highly recommends Web of Life and all of Duran’s other books. And as a fellow Theosophist and UFO experiencer, I too heartily endorse her marvelous work in all its varied aspects. And that is why I am so delighted that Krsanna has come along. Up until this time, the information about Paradise, California, has largely been kept under Krsanna Duran applies TimeStar to a wraps, although many in both the paranormal research study of sundry phenomena at Paradise, leading to amazing discoveries. community and the United States government’s various California, See https://www.youtube.com/user/Krsanna. 81
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Raymond Andrew Keller II intelligence branches were aware, at least to a limited extent, of what was truly taking place out there. From Krsanna’s own TimeStar site, here is some important information revealed so far about Paradise, California: 1. Paradise was the home of the first “flying saucer club” organized in the United States. 2. The membership was obsessed with contacting Venusians. 3. The membership conducted skywatches throughout California looking for Venusian spacecraft. For the past five decades, Krsanna and I have enjoyed the opportunity of attending a great many meetings of numerous and local flying saucer clubs. At these meetings, we would observe and record the sundry events that went on. But most importantly, we would talk to the members at the very grass roots level. This is something that was greatly appreciated and esteemed by the local club members. Some of the members of those associations more closely affiliated with national or international UFO research organizations may not have shared in some of the flexibility enjoyed by the brothers and sisters of these more local groups. The alternate reality perceived by the membership of these local groups undoubtedly derived its ultimate legitimacy from actual contacts with the space brothers and sisters. In other words, the extraterrestrials were not required to ask permission from the executive council of a larger social entity on this planet in order to pass on direct information to contacts here on Earth, contacts that they met at local meetings. The Venusians or other extraterrestrials could simply do an end run around these terrestrial authorities. Those in attendance at the local meetings were the truth seekers being sought out by the extraterrestrials. Some have defined these space-faring people as a super race, assuming that they are tall, handsome/pretty and of the master Nordic race. Naturally, the most visible manifestation or motif of the typical club is the flying saucers and their pilots. The average clubber’s conception of the universe is, however and basically, a mythology of science. When the study of mythology takes into account the story of Prometheus and how he brought fire to the Greeks, the parallel is immediately drawn to the space brothers who will bring peace, the beginning of the “New Age,” and a society in which the people who understand the message of the saucers will ascend to positions of authority among the elect. This is the point where ufology is seen as a conflation of mythology and science, and the point where it becomes more an issue for theology, or even magic, than any other academic disciplines. One can well imagine that “magic” might include an unprecedented spike in the level of synchronicities taking place to signal a forthcoming discovery of major importance in the world of paranormal investigations. As it turned out, on the Friday night before I made the discovery of the Garrett’s letter in the Gray Barker collection at the Waldomore Facility on the grounds of the Harrison County Public Library main branch in Clarksburg, West Virginia, back on 23 January 2016, on that very night before, Krsanna started to write about a shifting of the Earth’s magnetic lines of force passing over Mt. Shasta to a new location over the mountain village of Paradise, California, a little further south and east. She also discovered that Paradise marked the western boundaries of the Mormon Empire of Deseret, established by the prophet Brigham Young, and the town’s original industry was beekeeping and honey production. And for a period of about two weeks prior, Krsanna was having lucid dreams about a city park with a club house back in the 1950s or 1960s where people were gathering to talk about 93
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure flying saucers. And while that was happening to Krsanna, I was getting some strange e-mails from a utopian artist colony of Australian ex-pats, men and women, in Papua New Guinea who were dressing up like dancing forest fairies, complete with huge artificial insect wings on their backs…. or so I perceived them to be. Anyway, they called their colony “Paradise” after the preponderance of the Birds of Paradise flowers that proliferated in the area around their settlement. I later sent an electronic copy of a color photo of one of the members of this art colony to Krsanna’s e-mail, with the understanding that it would be erased immediately after she saw it due to the expressed wishes of the individual in the photo; and Krsanna complied with the request, so I knew she could be trusted with future imparted information. From what I could gather, the colonists were inherently sexually ambiguous, and some were transgendered. There was at least one member of the art colony who closely identified with the Dolores Barrios story in the last chapter of my first Venus book. So when I got to the Gray Barker collection the next day and opened the very first folder, I came to the unique letter from Pal and Dixie Garrett that appears in this chapter. This is first information I’d come across from the enigmatic Garretts since Queen Orda and I were helped by them following the crash of the time probe in the 2013/1954 paradox. However, among the first to realize both the psychic and historical importance of the strange events transpiring in Paradise, California, were not the Cosmic Ray and Krsanna Duran of 2016, but the spooky village’s very own residents from the early 1950s and the beginnings of the atomic and space ages. For example, let’s take a look at what was happening UFO-wise in the lives of G. E. “Pal” and Dixie Garrett, the founders of the Paradise Space-Craft Research Club, with Pal as president of the group, as reflected in the very letter the young couple sent to the famous West Virginia UFO hunter, Gray Barker, that I happened upon in the Waldomore files.82 July 21, 1955 Dear Mr. Gray Barker: Dear Friend: I see the ad of your magazine in the “Flying Saucer News.” I would like an old copy please, at once. I’m the President of the “Paradise Space-Craft Research Club” and I try to get all the magazines and have my club to order an individual subscription of each and also put a copy in the public library. I would appreciate a copy at once. Thank you so very much and I’m sure we will like your magazine. O, yes, will you run this ad for me in your next issue? Dr. Lee Crandall of Los Angeles, who is the author of two books, the Venusians83 and the Venusians Returned,84 will lecture at the Memorial Hall on the corner of Sky Way and Elliott on Sunday, August the 7th, at 2:00 P.M. Dr. Crandall will tell of his experiences with the Space-People, who visited his office and his home many times in L.A., also of his visitations to another planet. There is a park on the Memorial Hall grounds; there are rest rooms, water fountains, tables, etc. If you care to 82 83 84
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Letter from Pal and Dixie Garrett, P.O. Box 321, Paradise, California, telephone 3281, to Gray Barker, publisher of Clarksburg, West Virginia, dated 21 July 1955. Note: Pal and Dixie were actually co-presidents of the club. –R.K. Lee Crandall, with Eleanor Willatt, illustrator, The Venusians (Los Angeles, California: New Age Publishing Company, 1956) Author self-published this book in 1955 and sold copies of it at flying saucer meetings. Lee Crandall, Return of the Venusians (actual title on hand-painted cover), copy found in 1968 in Rosicrucian library. As with The Venusians, this book was self-published in 1955. However, to the best of my knowledge, it was never republished.
Raymond Andrew Keller II bring your lunch and be ready for the lecture at 2:00, you are invited to attend. WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME- To Paradise and the lecture. Do hope to see a large crowd of our Space-Craft Family. //signed Pal and Dixie Garrett// Chasing the Saucers Now this letter was written almost four months after the Garretts’ initial contact with me and Lady Orda in the Mojave Desert. It is clear that they were trying to find out everything they could about the planet Venus and Venusians. They were even paying out of their own pockets to have Dr. Lee Crandall travel all the way up from Los Angeles to tell their group something about the flying saucers from Venus. They felt a missionary fervor in doing this. Hand-painted cover for self-published To illustrate the excitement over the planet Venus Return of the Venusians, by Lee Crandall. and Venusians shared by the Garretts and others in the Paradise Space Research Club during this time, Patrick A. Harman, a reporter for the contemporary Paradise Post newspaper, sent me an article from the Paradise, California, Progress Review monthly periodical of August 1955, “Speaker Tells of His Trip to Venus,” that details the visit of Dr. Lee Crandall to the small Northern California mountain town. The anonymous author of this article states that Dr. Crandall’s discourse was well attended with over 200 packed into the Memorial Hall on that Sunday afternoon of 7 August. This was quite surprising, because residents who are still alive and remember Paradise from the early 1950s tell me that the population was neglible. It wasn’t even counted by the Census Bureau until 1960, when it stood at only 8,268.85 I also checked with the Paradise Chamber of Commerce and discovered that the city was not incorporated until 22 November 1979. Additionally, I discovered that back in 1955, it would have taken someone almost an hour, leaving from Chico, the nearest large community, to get up into the mountains and arrive in Paradise by a four-wheel drive vehicle, such as a jeep owned by the Garretts. So getting 200 people to attend a meeting about “Flying Saucers from Venus” in Paradise on 7 August 1955 was a really big deal. While the population of Paradise now stands at around 26,000, after this book is published it wouldn’t surprise me if the town turned into a New Age mecca, rivaling Giant Rock or Mt. Shasta in the Golden State. Following the Garrett’s encounter with Zor-El and Kara out in the Mojave Desert and their earnest pleadings with Dr. Lee Crandall to come and talk to them and their club about Venus and Venusians, the doctor made the trek all the way from his home in downtown Los Angeles up to the Northern California mountain community, where he was well received and stayed in the Garretts home for a couple of days before making his historic presentation. At the Memorial Hall, Crandall spoke of his three trips to the planet Venus in space ships that were constructed in vast factories on Venus. These were the motherships, the same kind that George 85
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Adamski took rides on. Crandall said that, “The ships are luminous and gorgeous and are shaped like barrels with windows all around them.” At the meeting, Crandall even produced a piece of the ship as proof that he rode in it. He told the large audience that, “Experts have been unable to discover the process of the manufacture.” The contactee also explained that in the ship where he was a passenger, he learned that it had taken 90 days, as time is computed on Earth, to refit the vessel with oxygen and a circulating system so he could breathe it and survive the journey onboard the fantastic space-faring vessel. Since the Venusians have etheric light bodies, breathing is optional. Crandall explained that because Venusians were so constituted, they could dematerialize and rematerialize at will. He also explained that, “Life on Venus is on a higher plane than we know it.” As such, the planet Venus is much more of a spiritual locale than Earth. Crandall even visited a big, beautiful temple there, where he was introduced to three presiding officials who conducted a ceremony where he was dedicated for a “great purpose.” However, the doctor was not at liberty to tell those assembled at that time just what that purpose was. All he came to know from his temple visit was that, “I (Dr. Crandall) am to work with the Venusians to bring love and peace to the Earth.” There were many Terrans (Earthlings) and other extraterrestrials living on Venus; but Crandall could tell the Venusians apart from these because when he would shake their hands he had a difficult time in determining if they had any bone structure. Also, their blood seemed to be a little thicker and oilier than that which circulates in the human body. “What do you mean?” asked Dixie, remembering her encounter with the very human Zor and Kara. “Well,” said Dr. Crandall, “if one should shake hands with a man from Venus, one would find that the hand is like a blown-up rubber glove. But you see, not everyone on Venus is a native Venusian,” he further explained, adding, “Look at me. I was on Venus and I’m not like that. But everyone is accepted there. There isn’t the bigotry and racism we see everywhere here on Earth.” Dixie was happy to hear this. She understood now that she could survive on Venus and would not be afraid to go there, if invited. The doctor told the attendees that his encounters with Venusians actually began on the streets in L.A. outside the trailer park where he was living last June and continued through to the very day he was presenting. “There are even some Venusians here among you now, perhaps invisible but watching attentively to these proceedings.” There was a long, drawn-out “Awwwwwwe” expressed by all. Crandall also reported that, “I was informed that a very large ship carrying 1,000 Venusians would land soon to mingle with the Earth people.” “What was it like to ride in the mothership?” a reporter from the Progress Review asked. “It’s quite comfortable,” answered the doctor. “All the beds and furniture are contoured with white dove feathers. They also have three dimensional, color television sets everywhere, even projecting onto the very air I was breathing. And the women, well….” “Yes, yes!” shouted a World War II veteran in the crowd, a member of the Paradise American Legion Auxiliary 295 that nearly jumped out of his seat. “Tell us about the Venusian women!” “They are very beautiful, almost beyond imagination. The planet is true to its mythological origins with such women. They are accomplished musicians and love our music here on Earth, too. They all have radios in their flying saucers so they can listen to the music over them. Besides playing the music over the radio in their spaceship, the Venusian women are frequently seen walking around the ship with some kind of earphones plugging up their aural cavities, and they are listening to our music in a way that won’t disturb others. Once I saw some Venusian 96
Raymond Andrew Keller II women in a hotel in downtown L.A. They were dressed in brown business suits and very short skirts. They were also wearing nylons, high heels and the standard amount of make-up. In other words, they looked like business professionals, but very sexy in a way that our women are not. On Venus, however, they are gowned in flowing white robes and go around barefooted. They also have their hair long and hanging loose. On Venus all of these women refer to themselves as ‘sisters,’ even if they are not blood-related.” Pal Garrett asked Crandall why he wrote a second Venus book. To answer, the chiropractic doctor said that, “I’m hoping the second book will help somewhat to prepare the Earth people for the coming of the Venusians. Once they arrive, believe me, they will take over any interplanetary travel plans our government might have on the drawing board.” “OK,” replied Pal, “I get it. But why are there so many more Venusians coming to live among us now?” “Pal, the Venusians told me that some 750,000 years ago in South America the atom bomb had been developed farther than the bomb of the present day. Well, from among them arose a powerful sister who gathered a group of people and prepared them for a trip into outer space. ‘The world (their way of life –R.K.) is going to be destroyed,’ warned the prophetess. Fortunately, those that heeded the great sister were saved; for a bomb was set off and the world was engulfed in a vast cloud of radiation that killed millions and sent a small remnant of humankind scurrying back into the caves. But those who heeded the great sister built spaceships that carried them to safety on Venus.” The article noted that Dr. Crandall was not a native Californian, but had moved into the state five years ago from Illinois, the state where he was born. It also stated that the core membership of the club was 25. The members had been meeting since the summer of last year, following the Garretts’ return from the First Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention. Daniel Fry’s Understanding was the first larger group that the Garretts had forged an alliance with. Flying saucers were seen on an almost-nightly basis in Paradise, so this attracted more interest and attention throughout Northern California in the club’s activities. As noted earlier, the Garretts were wathing orbs and scout ships passing over the mountains nearby from their backyard veranda. The very first issue of Understanding (Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1956) included an article where Daniel Fry proclaimed the purpose of his organization and publication, “The AntiProton and Energy Unlimited.” Here is an exerpt from that article: “On October 18th the Associated Press carried, with no fanfare and wily but little comment, a news item which announced the production, at the University of California’s nuclear physics laboratory, of a nuclear particle called the antiproton. “As is often the case in the reporting of scientific advances, the size of the type and the general treatment of the article gave no hint of the tremendous, the almost cataclysmic import of this simple statement to all mankind upon this earth. The article explained merely that it was a particle for which researchers had been looking for more than twenty years; that it was produced in the multi-billion volt bevatron at the University of California at Berkeley; and that, because of its negative charge, it would react with any normal proton of terrestrial matter to convert both entirely to energy. “Complete mass to energy conversion! Twenty-five million kilowatt hours per gram of mass! One thousand times more energy than we have been able to realize from our most efficient nuclear reaction! True, the particle was produced singularly rather than as a continuous 97
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure stream, and it may seem to be a long road from the production of a single such particle, to the realization of unlimited energy for every human need. The progress of the material science, however, accelerates at a rate which continually amazes even those who are the most advanced in its pursuit. The proof that such a particle can be produced, is all that will be necessary to bring about a concerted and determined effort to produce them in quantity by simpler and more efficient means, and since such simple and efficient means do, in fact exist, we can be certain that they will be discovered and utilized within the next few years. “While I am well aware of the hazards of prophecy, I would still venture to predict that within the next ten years, ‘atomic’ energy as it is now produced, will become as obsolete as the wood-burning steamship. Energy will become available in quantities and varieties that would stagger the imagination today, and man will have acquired the ability to convert his drab little planet into a grade “A” paradise, if he chooses to do so.” Then the January 1956 issue of the Flying Saucer News, published out of New York City, ran an article about some UFO sightings made by members of the Paradise Club. The Garretts were credited with providing this information. The Garretts give their name and address, with no change from the letter they wrote on behalf of the club to Gray Barker; and the report is dated 15 December 1955. It reads as follows: “Our friends Pal and Dixie have reported many sightings lately; in fact, they claim to have seen as many as six in one evening. Their last report states they saw several flashes of light in the sky at different times; it was a huge flash one might call an explosion. This was a brilliant, dazzling ball-of-white light in the center, then spread out a very great distance of red, green, pink and yellow light. “Mrs. Casterline of 5893 Kibler Rd. of Paradise, California, a neighbor, noticed a round disk-like object several hundred yards away from her bedroom one evening. It was very bright. She did not believe in saucers up to this popint, but she DOES NOW--- and Attendees to the First Interplanetary who wouldn’t. After all, as the saying goes: “Seeing is Spacecraft Convention watch the explosion of the Venusian time probe from a distance. believing.’” By the time they arrived at the site of the One has to wonder if the many lights the Garretts explosion at the break of day, all they are referring to, along with the explosion, might be the found was a patch of scorched ground. very ones that everyone else was seeing out at Giant Agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), who were the Rock back in those first days of April 1954. first on the scene about 30 minutes after What we discover in this letter is that the neighbor is it happened, questioned the Garretts. also a big flying saucer fan. To the astute ufologist, this Apparently, they believed the Garretts’ story they thought the explosion was a prank will serve to open up many other areas of investigation. that caused by some Caltech students launching We also know that the Garretts are not alone in their experimental rockets. Photo was taken by obsession about Venus, for there are yet others in the Don Dwiggins, the Los Angeles Daily News club so inclined. But what can we find out about the staff writer assigned to cover the flying saucer jamboree. club itself? 98
Raymond Andrew Keller II The First Flying Saucer Club Don Dwiggins, the Los Angeles, California, Daily News staff writer who covered the historic Giant Rock event, noted in an article in the Monday, 5 April 1954 edition of his newspaper, that the, world’s First Interplanetary Space Craft Convention drew 2,500 believers to Giant Rock Airport. Dwiggins reported that, “They came by planes and cars to tell their experiences and in hope of getting a ride on a 300-foot ‘Constellation’ saucer from Venus.” So we see that these were die-hard flying saucer afecianados from the very beginning, even before George Van Tassel’s jamboree was convened. Expectations were high among all the participants that they would not only see a flying saucer, but that that they would meet the Venusians who would take them on a ride in one of their more deluxe versions of an interplanetary spaceship. Perhaps they would have all went home disappointed, and maybe the whole contactee movement would have died out at the close of convention had it not been for the inadvertent arrival of the Cosmic Ray and Queen Orda on the scene, the explosion of the time probe and the reporting of these incidents in the local press, that ultimately resulted in national attention for the entire cause of UFO occupants as extraterrestrial visitors. And as it was with many following that first festival at Giant Rock, the Garretts became ever more enraptured with all things Venus and Venusian. Now it is three years later, in 1957 with the first Sputnik going up into orbit, when we find the Garretts still directing the activities of the Paradise Space-Craft Research Club. This was evidenced in a report sent by the Garretts to the Aetherius Society in Hollywood, California, a synopsis of which appeared in their official organ, The Cosmic Voice: Wisdom of the Masters, volume 2, number 2, toward the end of 1957. The Aetherius Society was founded by the British yogi Dr. George King. It was based upon the channeled teachings that King received from the Master Aetherius on the planet Venus as well as other “space gods” that inhabit that sphere and others in the etheric realms of our solar system and beyond. While the Paradise club had originally been chartered with Daniel Fry’s Understanding organization as one of the first flying saucer clubs in the United States, it The Garretts drove their durable 1953 Jeep had since, under the Garretts’ direction, expanded its Willys station wagon up and down the and breadth of California looking for affiliations to include the Aetherius Society and in length flying saucers and their Venusian crews. See 1959, Gabriel Green’s Amalgamated Flying Saucer http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1953-1956jeep2.htm. Clubs of America (AFSCA). Daniel Fry’s Understand headquarters was physically located at 313 East Organge Grove Avenue in Pasadena, California, with a mailing address of Box 22, Station C, also in Pasadena.86 The telephone number was SY 2-7386. If you called that number, it would most likely be Fry himself who would pick up the phone. In a hand-delivered letter received by me in February 2016, information was included titled “Credentials and Background: Daniel W. Fry, Founder and National President of Understanding.” Remember that this is organization with which the Garretts had originally 86
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Chapter 6: “There’s no place like Venus...” “I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” —John Lennon
Dixie and Pal Garrett immediately after they bid farewell to the Venusian scientist Zor-El and his lovely daughter Kara, both of whom dematerialized and beamed-up into Commander Aura Rhanes’ saucer “swoop.” Photo was taken by Truman Bethurum.
Onboard the Spartacus Commander Rhanes addresses the queen: “Lady Orda, I recognize you immediately, and understand that you are not the Lady Orda of this timeline, but of the Terran year 2013. I gave Truman a nimbus a year ago; so he was able to read your mind and transmit the details of the situation to me telepathically.” “Is there anything you can do to help us, Commander Rhanes?” asked Lady Orda. “I’m afraid not,” replied Commander Rhanes, adding that, “The only one who can possibly help you now is the great, powerful and mysterious Queen Ni Nu, who happens to be residing in the Greater Los Angeles area right now in the North Hollywood hills. Sorry to say that Commander Thor’s Victory One is in orbit around Titan right now and Commander Orsic’s Isis is in the Alpha Proxima Centauri system. So all the motherships are tied up; and you’d need the power of one of those to propel you in a new time bubble back to the future.” “OK, so what can the vacationing Venusian queen do for us?” I asked. 103
The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure “I’m not sure. But she is the consort of Lord Dysmas, so she must be very powerful….,” said the Commander pensively, and adding, “But don’t despair, comrades, I am hovering over the North Hollywood hills even as we speak, and I am going to beam you down right on her doorsteps. If I didn’t feel in my heart that she could do something for you, I would have just taken you with me to Moonbase Clarion. But trust me, she’s the genuine article.” In the blink of an eye Queen Orda and the Cosmic Ray were standing on the doorstep of one “Mrs. Terry Blaylack at 1403 N. Vista St. in North Hollywood.”88 The time travelers looked at each other and Lady Orda remarked, “Doesn’t it seem strange that the Queen of Outer Space would choose this place over the palace in Azure?” “It does,” said the Cosmic One, “but curiosity killed the cat, you know. As long as she can help us, This is Truman’s sketch of Commander who cares where she hangs her bonnet.” Rhanes as it appeared in his 1954 book, “You’re right,” said Lady Orda, as she pressed the Aboard a Flying Saucer. See http://www. theironskeptic.com/articles/clarion/clarion. doorbell. htm. There was a still, small voice from behind the door. “One minute, friends, I will be right with you.” At first, I wondered why she knew there were two of us at the door. I speculated that since she was the Queen of Outer Space, she would automatically know everything; but then I saw there was a peep hole in the door, so she probably just looked through it. After she opened the door and he caught first sight of her, the Cosmic Ray felt an immediate warmth and aura of kindness emanating from Ni Nu’s heart. “This is surely a queen, filled with love for all,” the Coz thought. Reading my mind, Ni Nu embraced the both of us and welcomed us into her humble abode. “Enter, dear friends,” is all she said. She went over to the television set and turned off The Adventures of Superman. “I know it’s a kids’ show, but I can’t help but like George Reeves and Jack Larson. Sometimes I think George is really from another planet after all; and Jack, he’s just so cute. I sometimes wonder if he’d actually be attracted to girls. I have some doubts in that area, if you know what I mean.” Mrs. Blaylack chuckled. She directed us to a large sofa and sat across from us at a rich, dark oak paneled desk set. “Mind if I smoke?” she said. “Oh, not at all my Queen.” said Lady Orda. “Not at all,” said I. She lit a Winston and then exhaled a long silky cloud of smoke. “OK then, let’s get down to business. I know who you are and why you are here. And yes, Cosmic Ray, I can read minds, but I did, as you guessed, just look through the peep hole. Just because we Venusians have these amazing powers doesn’t mean they are turned on all the time. But you will come to learn that.” “Forgive my presumptuousness, my Queen,” said the Cosmic Ray. 88
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Raymond Andrew Keller II “All right then, this is what I can do for you and what I want you to do for me. I will lend you my actual lotus pod to return home, provided you do one good turn for anyone of your own choosing on the way back. Then upon your return, please see that my lotus pod is delivered to the custody of my dear Dysmas; and let him know that I’m missing him. Hopefully, Lord Dysmas will return the lotus pod to me in person.” “Understood,” said Lady Orda, adding that, “We shall do as you have commanded.” “Yes, understood, my Queen, and thank you for your kindness.” said I. “But isn’t it true that only a god can own a lotus pod for travel back and forth, to and from the Great Black Central Sun of Kolob?” “This is true, Cosmic Ray, or should I say Virgil? But I’m Jesus’ little sister, Judith. I have been with Lord Dysmas for the past 1,870 years, following my own translation to Venus. Like Lord Dysmas, I despised the way Jesus was treated on Earth, by almost everyone he came in contact with. If I were in my brother’s sandals, I wouldn’t have been so nice to any of those who made his life difficult. I would have called some hell-fire down on their heads, like Elijah did to the haughty priests of Baal.” “I can empathize with your feelings, my Queen,” I said. “And on behalf of those in the Roman Empire that had anything to do with the persecution of your dear brother, I offer the sincerest apologies.” “Your apologies are accepted, Virgil. I know that you had nothing to do with the persecution; and if I am reading your heart correctly, you would have done everything possible to stop it had you lived a little longer in that particular incarnation.” The Mission Lady Orda and I spent the night up on one of the second floor bedrooms, getting a good rest. The pillows and quilts were so fluffy and soft that we thought we were already on Venus, orb flying in the Truman Bethurum signs copies of his billowy orange-tinted cloud banks. When we woke up popular flying saucer book. See https:// and went downstairs for breakfast, Truman Bethurum alchetron.com/Truman-Bethurum1312096-W.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure was there. Lady Orda reached her hands over to Tru’s hands, clasped them, and gave her thanks for his kind assistance back at Giant Rock. Queen Ni Nu declared, “Good news. Tru is going to go with you! He learned a lot about celestial navigation from Commander Rhanes; so he will be the pilot of the lotus pod. Of course, I trust him to pilot the craft back here, with or without Lord Dysmas, after he returns you to your own time line and the mission you briefed me on is accomplished.” Then we followed Queen Ni Nu out to her spacious garage, where the lotus pod was parked along with her gleaming white 1954 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, but covered by a huge tarp. Tru pulled the tarp off the time bubble and it lit up like a Christmas tree. Then the lotus blossoms slowly dropped to the garage floor and he just walked right through it, bidding us to do the same and to take a seat, getting ready for the ride of our lives. With this pod, Queen Ni Nu advised us that no Cytherium would be needed. “It’s run by magic,” she said, adding that “You operate it just like the time probe, except for the Cytherium rod. It’s powered by imagination and love, the two greatest forces in the whole starry heavens.” “OK then, switching from molecular pattern to wave phased oscillation. Prepare for quantum transmission and buckle up” is all that Truman told us. We weren’t going to argue with this American working class hero, so we did as he said. “I am now entering time and space coordinates. Cosmic Ray, read them out to me, slowly and clearly.” “Roger that, Tru; the time coordinates are Monday, 8 May 2000, 3 p.m., EST, and the spacial coordinates are 40°4047’4”N, 73° 57’ 29” W, 40.784444, -73.958056. “What will we find there, Cosmic?” “We’ll be looking for a scared teenager, a 14-year old girl, cowering before a dumpter in the back of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in Manhattan as she is taunted by some very cruel and nasty children who want to toss her into it. She’s on her way home from school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at 1st East 91st Street.” “What’s her name?” “Stefani, goes by Stefi.” “Oh no you didn’t!” said Lady Orda. “Oh yes I did!” said the Cosmic One. “I told Queen Ni Nu everything about Stefi and she liked the idea straight away. Even though she never made it into the big leagues of acting or performing herself, she said she would be happy to even have some small part in helping inch another aspiring female performer on her way to super stardom. Queen Ni Nu is a great-greatgreat, etc. grandmother many thousands of times in the Abejar Hive Collective but gets no respect in Hollywood. Every time she tries out for an acting part as Mrs. Terry Blaylack they tell her she’s just too old. Believe me, Lady Orda, every time a woman, even a young one like Stefi, gets stepped on, Queen Ni Nu wants to see that justice is served against the aggressors.” “Sounds good to me,” opined Truman. “I’m with you, Coz. Let’s make something good happen here, so I can give an outstanding report to Commander Rhanes when I see her again.” Truman double checked the coordinates with the Cosmic Ray and then pulled the throttle on the lotus pod. There was a whirling sound as it levitated off the ground, glowed pink, and became engulfed in a sea of static and sparks. The lotus petals retracted and closed in on the main body of the craft as everyone phased out of material existence, just like ghosts. They were now sliding through a time tunnel at the speed of thought, but quickly coming to a complete stop at the time and space coordinates indicated. All the while the crew remained invisible to the children gathered around the dumpster and picking on poor Stefi. There were three boys taunting Stefi, hurling insults at her like rabid, barking dogs. The 106
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Epilogue: American Heritage and The National Security Act Krsanna Duran
Meritocracy that shifted power from an aristocrat class to “The People” with self-governance is ancient America’s legacy underpinning the Declaration of Independence and the republic’s founding. Heirs of an elite class of aristocrats had ruled Greece and Rome before Europe, when the founding fathers adopted the federal system of decentralized authority with no hereditary power from the Iroquois League of Nations for the modern nation in 1787. America rose to world leadership with power balanced between three branches UFOs are real. The government is an of government – president with executive authority, illusion. –OSIRIS T-shirt, 1987. See http:// legislature enacting law, and courts weighing justice. fxgallery.com/native-american-womenThe balance of America’s power rapidly shifted spirituality.html. with the appearance of UFOs in the 1940s and the National Security Act of 1947 that gave unchecked power to clandestine security. Unchecked power given to authorities with no accountability toppled the balance of American power and rapidly sank roots for a secret government on Native American lands that had nurtured the American way for millennia. America was at war on February 25, 1942, and Los Angeles was blacked out after a Japanese submarine had fired 20-30 shots at an oil field near Long Beach. The unidentified flying object first appeared west of Los Angeles then slowly traveled south towards Long Beach. Flying 25 miles in thirty minutes, it traveled much slower than an airplane. Twenty to thirty spotlights kept the object illuminated while Army airplanes pursued it. Although anti-aircraft rounds were repeatedly fired, the well illuminated object suffered no damage. After the thirty-minute volley of anti-aircraft rounds, the object still sustained no damage and silently disappeared only to return near downtown Los Angeles fifteen minutes later.1 1
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After German experiments failed to develop sustained nuclear fission, American scientists were successful in 1942. The Germans had already succeeded in launching antigravity discs, (the Nazi bell craft) and they concentrated resources on long-range antigravity vehicles capable of flight to America, thus overcoming fossil fuel limitations. When the Nazis saw the end of World War II nearing they set a plan in motion to raise the Fourth Reich from the rubble of post-war Germany.[i] They moved Hitler’s center of operations to the Antarctic, and began transporting personnel and materials by submarines; this was well documented at the end of the war. As is still done in covert operations today, the Nazis created several variations of their activities and disseminated them to the scientists and foot soldiers that were left to end the war in Germany. At war’s end, the scientists that were not essential to the Nazi’s antigravity science, many of whom were experts on fossil fuel rockets, used their knowledge of Nazi rockets to trade for free tickets to America. Secret negotiations to bring former Nazi rocket scientists to America were underway as Project Paperclip in 1947.[ii] The National Security Agency was formed by men who had negotiated free tickets for Nazis to work in America’s rocket program, so the NSA knew a lot more about the German defunct fossil fuel rockets than they did about the antigravity research that had continued at the Antarctic, because the Nazi scientists that had been left in Germany had been given a variety of disinformation. America got the scientists the Nazis left behind - with the bogus stories deliberately told them.
Raymond Andrew Keller II Although the unidentified object took neither offensive nor defensive action, the Army’s aggressive pursuit gave the appearance of a battle. The Army’s robust action memorialized the unidentified object in the collective psyche with front-page headlines in The Los Angeles Examiner and The Los Angeles Times as well as radio broadcasts.
The National Security Agency bosses in America met for the first time nineteen days after a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico on July 7, 1947. Apologists for early errors that the NSA and its child agency the CIA made, often cite justifiable fears of the Russians in the Cold War. The Russians took Berlin at the end of World War II, and the Americans never enjoyed the satisfactory certainty of knowing what the Russians had captured from Nazi scientists. Moreover, the majority of information about Russian activities came from Nazis spies, who made separate deals with America to escape the gallows after the war. Former Nazi intelligence agents set up America’s spy apparatus in Europe after World War II, and played the Russians against the Americans. By 1947, the secret agents that the National Security Act had endowed with authority without accountability were well aware that UFOs surveilling nuclear sites were extraterrestrial. It benefited the National Security Council’s interests to withhold this information from Americans, and thus knowledge was subverted. The NSA has succeeded in constraining public knowledge about UFOs and its own spurious activities in the name of ‘national security’. It has extended its reach into the conversations and financial transactions of world leaders as well as American and world citizens. The authority to broker secret alliances with UFO factions, with no accountability to the president and congress, the National Security Act gives secret agents the power of life and death.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Unknown to the people and beyond the reach of democratic process by virtue of wartime conditions, America had entered the atomic war business. Proliferating nuclears quickly became a high-profit business with a powerful lobby, despite high-profile protests against them at the end of World War II. Surprise leveraged by secrecy was the key to success of the atomic bomb during the war and to the profitable industry after the war. Isolated Native American lands were ideal for hiding nuclear secrets and a productive use for lands the savages inhabited. Deserts in the American southwest were not profitable for agriculture, but they were ideal for secluding atomic testing from German sympathizers and, later, mainstream citizens who protested them. Nuclears on Traditional Native Lands When J. Robert Oppenheimer headed up research to perfect the atomic bomb during World War II, he was riding the wave of technological power with highest priority, secured by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s authority. He selected lands between the Chiricahua Apache tribal lands — Geronimo’s home — and the Mescalero Apache R, east of the Hopi. Atomic research and testing was deep in Indian Country, at White Sands Missile Range. Ancient relationships native people maintained with ancestors from the stars were of little, if any, concern to him.2 The Air Force had not yet coined the term UFO for unidentified flying objects, which began proliferating with sustained nuclear fission. Glowing balls of light, dubbed foo fighters, which trailed fighter and bomber planes during World War II, had been troublesome. The Allies suspected Germany possessed secret weapons in the guise of the intelligently piloted foo fighters. These were worrisome, but they never acted aggressively against the Allies’ planes. Had FDR known, or even vaguely suspected, the foo fighters, later called UFOs, had visited traditional Native American lands for millennia, he might have hidden the atomic secrets elsewhere. But that was not to be the fate of America’s nuclear program. 3, 4, 5 Voters that FDR represented in mid-twentieth century America commonly dismissed Native American traditions as the superstition of savages. Federal documents of the era are replete with references to the Indian savages, and solutions to obstacles they posed to mainstream America. Federal programs to sterilize undesirable populations that targeted Native Americans, along with plans to relocate them to urban areas, thus liberating Indian lands for profitable uses, were 2 3
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Raymond Andrew Keller II in full swing when the Manhattan Project prepared for atomic testing in 1942.6,7 The Trinity Site for testing the first atomic bomb was located on Native American lands in the New Mexico desert. Nancy Red Star, contributor to the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens series, learned from one of the Pueblo Indian governors that the tribe had entered into a compact with “the government” to not publicly discuss ongoing contact with their ancestors from the stars.8 The UFO presence came into mainstream attention when businessman Kenneth Arnold observed nine craft flying in formation over Mt. Rainer on June 24, 1947. He described them within the framework of twentieth century Americana. He reported their erratic motion was “like a fish flipping in the sun” or “a saucer skipped across water.” Keeping step with Arnold, the press coined the new terms “flying saucer” and “flying disc.” Headlines announced that the Army Air Force had captured a flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 7, 1947, thirteen days after Arnold’s sighting. The Army’s press release was rescinded within twenty-four hours and replaced with the first of many lies covering up UFO activity that has continued for the better part of seven decades. After the UFO crash at Roswell, the national security state rapidly took shape. Nineteen days later, President Truman signed the National Security Act on July 26, 1947. The Department of Defense and the Air Force were created within months. America’s security officials retreated to the safe haven of bureaucracy, where they had plotted victory against known forces in World War II. They avoided the unknown and uncharted wilderness that the UFOs presented for as long as possible, before the metaphorical trumpets sounded the call to the Promised Land and walls cracked around the Pentagon, like the walls of Jericho.9 In 1948, intelligently piloted green fireballs silently traveling between nuclear sites in New Mexico’s desert were undeniable evidence. Amid public protest against continued atomic development after World War II, the Cold War provided the pretext to extend wartime conditions, including public secrecy. Sites used for atomic research and storage were heavily classified. The 6
Peal, Tiesha Rashon. 2004. “Note: The Continuing Sterilization of Undesirables in America.” Rutgers Race & The Law Review. 7 “The Urban Relocation Program.” Indian Country Diaries: Assimilation, Relocation, Genocide. Public Broadcasting System. www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/relocate.html 8 Author of Star Ancestors: Extraterrestrial Contact in the Native American Tradition, Nancy Red Star reported a conversation with the governor of a Pueblo tribe when she asked to interview him for “Ancient Aliens,” the television series. The governor told Red Star that if he did an interview for “Ancient Aliens” he would go to jail, because the tribe had a compact with the government prohibiting him to talk publicly about extraterrestrial visits to the tribe. Dreamland interview for May 10, 2013. www.unknowncountry.com 9 Swords, Michael and Robert Powell, etal. 2012. UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry. San Antonio, TX: Anomalists Books. Robert Powell, co-author and editor of the definitive study UFOs and Government, stated in an interview May 3, 2013: “When someone reads our book I think they’ll see this was just as confusing to the United States military. We show examples of Air Force generals who believed this was extraterrestrial, and there were others who thought it was just an unknown they didn’t know, and then there were others who were on the side of... Sergeant Schultz in “Hogan’s Heroes”... ‘I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing,’ and they don’t want to be bothered by it... We weren’t able to find an organization that throughout history that’s keeping like the Bilderberg type thing, that they have the information about the phenomena... There are indications that there are probably individuals within the Air Force and the CIA that during their lifetimes had some information they never shared. And exactly to what they extent they were aware, we will probably never know. But I think what happens is they die and pass away and that information just stays in boxes or cobwebs and gets thrown away some day. And there’s no continuity of that knowledge going through time... That’s my take on it. There’s a certain amount they [the Air Force] don’t know, but there’s also a certain amount... they know something but they don’t think the public needs to know... this is a phenomenon they know they can do nothing about, and I think they have no desire to say ‘hey, this exists, but, by the way, even though we are supposed to control the skies for you, we can’t do anything about it, and we don’t know what it is, where it’s coming from or anything else. We just know it is there.’ That would cost them so much grief, I think that’s one of the main reasons they avoid this topic.”
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure National Security Act provided the legal machinery to engineer carte blanche concealment of activities in New Mexico. The White Sands Proving Ground comprised the Alamogordo Army Airfield, the Trinity nuclear testing site, and missile testing grounds, within a 3,200-squaremile reserve. The Department of Defense’s principal nuclear weapons installation during the Cold War was Sandia Base, where atomic weapons research, development, design, and testing were conducted near Albuquerque, New Mexico. A green fireball that initially looked like a meteor, but arched upwards and then moved on a flat horizontal path instead of falling, was observed by both a civilian and a military crew near Albuquerque on December 5, 1948. It first flew beside the civilian crew, then went ahead of it, before the fireball reversed direction and came at the airplane on a collision course. The pilot said the object appeared as big as a full moon. A dozen green fireballs were observed near military installations in New Mexico, including the Sandia Base, on the same night. The spree of green fireballs continued for months. Astronomer and meteorite expert Lincoln LaPaz investigated the fireballs and concluded they were artificially constructed, because they displayed many characteristics that meteors do not. They flew low and slow in unpredictable patterns, left no dust or debris, turned on and off like light switches, and changed directions. Repeated appearances were virtually confined to New Mexico. Dr. LaPaz concluded they were intelligently controlled Unidentified Flying Objects.10,11 Moreover, their range of activity was limited to an area containing America’s most prized nuclear secrets, which included Sandia Base and White Sands Proving Ground, only 90 miles from the UFO crash site at Roswell, New Mexico. The Pentagon was forced to admit (behind closed doors) that the green balls were craft of extraplanetary origin. The safe haven of known terrestrial forces was pulled out from under the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, the CIA, and the Air Force.
(c) Raymond Keller and Headline Books, 2017. In 1949, Daniel Fry was working as a civilian aerospace contractor for the Aerojet Corporation. He was attached to the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico and involved in a then TOP SECRET program for the development of the AIM-4 air-to-air, radar guided and heat seeking Falcon missiles and instructing Air Force personnel in their operation and deployment. In the photos are Airmen Periman (L) and Manning (R), who received “training for the Falcon bird” under Fry’s tutelage, along with a deactivated missile outside the airmen’s barracks and a photo of their bunks. Fry was one of three contactees who later presented at the flying saucer convention at the Skyline Lodge on Mt. Palomar in California on the weekend of 7-8 August 1954, when Dolores Barrios and her posse dematerialized into a cloud of ionized air. The other contactees at the convention were George Adamski and Truman Bethurum. Photos were taken by Daniel Fry and in possession of the “Cosmic Ray,” Dr. Keller. Fry never published the photos for security concerns. 10 11
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Raymond Andrew Keller II The keepers of national security had entered a wilderness of uncharted territory and knew not what to do, so they fell back to tried and true wartime solutions. They pulled the blanket of national security over their heads with labels of Top Secret that accelerated to Above Top Secret and then invented Majestic security clearance. They knew how to keep a secret. The National Security Act had given a chosen few the authority to forego red-tape. It was better, they decided, that the public not know about the intelligence that focused on nuclear sites in New Mexico. Direct UFO Contact In the volatile militarized zone of New Mexico’s nuclear sites, Daniel Fry reported the first direct encounter with a flying saucer in 1949. Glowing, shiny, glinting, reflective surfaces had been reported in all accounts of flying saucers before his face-to-face contact with one. In the aftermath of a seven-month spree of glowing fireball sightings, Fry reported a dark object that blocked his view of the stars outside of White Sands Proving Ground.12,13 A civilian working at White Sands, Fry had missed the last bus to town on July Fourth weekend. The base was virtually deserted and, when he wasn’t able to sleep, Fry walked into the desert. Something silently moved above him and blotted out the sky, and then a black craft landed nearby. A man’s voice spoke with instructions to enter the craft. The unmanned vehicle flew Fry to New York and back in thirty minutes, while the voice introduced itself as Alan, explaining that he remotely controlled, from a distant mother ship, the cargo craft in which Fry was riding. When the craft set back down onto the New Mexico desert, Fry jolted slightly forward in his chair, and glanced beside him, where saw a tree and a serpent embossed on the next seat. Observing Fry’s surprise at the ancient design on a UFO, Alan explained that some of his 12 13
Fry, Daniel. To Men of Earth. In 1954 Fry wrote about his contact with Alan in his book The White Sands Incident, and reported that it had taken place on July 4, 1950. Ten years later he announced that the date had actually been July 4, 1949. Timothy Good reports his conversation with Fry about the discrepancy in dates in his book Alien Base: Another of my questions dealt with the fact that, in all editions of his first book, The White Sands Incident (first published in 1954), the date of the incident is given as 4 July 1950. Yet, ten years after publication he admitted that the incident actually occurred on July 4th, 1949. “I had to change it,’ he explained. “In the last edition [1966], I told the publisher to change it, but he decided this might not be a good for publicity, and he kept it to 1950 after I’d said to change it, because there was now no need to hide the fact that it was 1949.” “So there was a reason?” I asked. “There was a reason, Dan replied, “because it turned out to be a year later than he had originally planned—that Alan could be here. He thought it could be done in four years; it actually took five years. Now, had the Pentagon, for example, taken this book seriously, at the time there was a pretty good chance they could have tracked him down. There had to be an escape mechanism. The fact is that on the evening of the Fourth of July 1950, I was not at White Sands—I didn’t arrive there until later in July. And everyone at White Sands Proving Grounds and in Aerojet knows that.’” Timothy Good also addressed film footage he believes Fry fabricated: I have always been dubious about the authenticity of Fry’s 16mm films of UFOs (copies of which are in my possession), particularly an object he said he saw in Oregon in May 1964, which to me looks like a couple of lampshades or similarly shaped devices fixed together and suspended with fine twine. He went into some detail as to the circumstances of the filming, and claimed that some frames show the limb of a cloud coming in front of the saucer. I remain unconvinced; the movement of the craft gives every indication of being a suspended fake. Perhaps I am wrong. But does this prove that Fry was lying about all his previous experiences? I think not. Most probably, he thought that a few fabricated movie films of ‘saucers’ would bolster his unprovable claims.” Note: The date of the questioned footage in 1964 suggests underlying circumstances that could explain pressure on Fry. The questionable UFO footage was made fifteen years after his initial meeting with Alan and one year after an FBI agent wrote a report about a letter he saw on Fry’s desk. If Fry sensed he was being surveilled, as the FBI report indicates he was, he might have attempted to deflect official interest by fabricating UFO footage, as he had done with the initial date of contact with Alan.
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Raymond Andrew Keller II “Of the four craft which essayed the great leap, three arrived safely at their destination. There is no record in our history as to the fate of the fourth. “For many generations the grim struggle for survival demanded the entire time and energy of the people. These were the dark ages of the new race, and we have relatively little knowledge of this period. The original crew members, immediately after their arrival upon the new planet, compiled a carefully written history of the races on earth, documenting the reasons for their downfall.”14 With this introduction, Dan Fry agreed to assist Alan in his project to live on Earth. Instead of the four years originally planned, it took Alan five years to make the transition to life on Earth.15 (Fry’s effort to protect Alan from detection resulted in confusion about the date of the UFO contact, which is explained in the endnotes.) Fry had been surprised at the symbols of Earth’s oldest cultures, but he did not extrapolate their significance as icons of ancient astronauts and sea kings. He was a self-educated engineer who described himself as a rocket scientist. At that time, academic protocols and peer reviews were considerably different from those in use fifty years later. For example, Einstein had only a bachelor’s degree and would not pass muster to interview for “a good job” in physics in the twenty-first century. In the rapidly changing technological world of the 1940s, Fry worked as a rocket scientist and engineer at White Sands and, perhaps, purchased a PhD certificate. In 20/20 hindsight, several of Fry’s efforts to give dignity and credibility to the UFO faction he defended were tantamount to throwing snowballs at the gates of hell. At the time, Fry was pressured with FBI surveillance and concerns about protecting Alan’s identity, while simultaneously disseminating information about the UFO presence during the McCarthy era of national security. Most importantly, the details of Fry’s account of contact with the UFO faction that had escaped the devastation of Atlantis are reflected in military history revealed since 2008. A UFO encounter with Army Intelligence Officer Colonel Philip Corso at White Sands Missile Range was beyond top secret in 1954 when Fry wrote about his meeting with Alan in the same site. Corso inserted debris from the Roswell UFO crash into American industry for backengineering. He kept fragments of the Roswell crash in a file cabinet by his desk at the Pentagon, and searched for good American companies to use it for defense engineering, as told in his book The Day After Roswell. 16 Retired Command Sergeant Major Robert Dean described Corso’s UFO contact at White Sands Proving Ground in an interview with Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot. Dean and other military members “in the know” about UFOs formed an “Old Boys Network” of people from all services and all ranks to share information about the extraterrestrial presence in the 1960s. He had gotten to know Corso pretty well in Italy, and Corso shared with Dean things “that had happened to him, not just things he knew.” Dean explained: Corso was in charge of security of “the range” [White Sands Missile Range] at one time, and something came in, the radar picked it up and he hopped in his car to go off and see what it was. There was a UFO sitting on the ground. There’s a guy standing next to it, and Corso walked over to him. Corso said, “Who are you? Where are you from? And why are you here?” The fellow said, “I just came to talk.” 14 Ibid. 15 Good, Timothy. 1999. Alien Base. The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization on Earth. United Kingdom. 16 Corso, Philip J. Colonel with William J. Birnes. 1997. The Day After Roswell. New York, NY: Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure Corso asked, “Are you with us or against us?” “Neither,” the guy said. “We are neither for you nor against you.” Corso had a conversation with the alien for over an hour. Then the guy said, “Please turn off your radar — it disturbs my control or guidance system — so I can leave.” Corso went back to headquarters and turned off the radar. And away the alien went. 17 In 1961, five-star rank Sir Thomas Pike was the Air Marshall of NATO in Europe, where UFO did regular fly-overs. He had the authority to commission an inquiry into the UFOs his command sighted, and he did, initiating a study to find out what the UFOs were doing over Europe. It was completed in 1964 and fifteen copies were published for the full colonels who ran the twenty-four-hour-per-day NATO war room. In 1967, while working in NATO’s war room, Dean read the 1964 study about UFOs. The manuscript covered thousands of years of history and concluded that four extraterrestrial races had been contacting Earth for so long they were in some way involved with humanity’s origins. If the ET races were hostile or aggressive, it would have been all over for us a long time ago. One of the ET species looks just like us, and this one scares the military the most, Dean explained in a 2008 interview with Project Camelot: “The study’s conclusions were a shock to the military mind, Christians and Muslims,” Dean said. The Admirals and the Generals could not deal with it. Dean knew the aide for American Air Force General Robert Lee. “When the General read the report it hit him like a truck. He threw his hat across the desk.” “Do you know what the hell this means?” he said. “Everything we’ve got, everything we’ve done, everything we’ve had doesn’t mean a damn thing.” “The shock was serious. He was a highly decorated World War II general who had been all over the place.” Dean said he knew military members who broke down and cried when they learned of this situation. The rationale is straight-forward: “If this is all true, if this is real about the UFO, all we have — our military, our Air Force, our bombs, our planes — don’t mean a thing.” Dean has been contacted by UFO; he has been abducted. He views these as invitations. He’s been aboard some of the ships several times. “What would it do to people who are living tiddlywink lives and think, ‘This is a good life?’” Dean asks. We are immersed in a universe teeming with conscious intelligence. There are cultures, civilizations, and societies that are a million years ahead of us, in all our primitive savagery and heartbreaking ways of trying to go about life. There are societies out there that have reached a level far beyond what we have accomplished here.18 UFOs in Indian Country A petroglyph on the Hopi’s Second Mesa depicts a dome-shaped object resting on an arrow that means travel through space. It represents a “flying shield,” similar to a “flying saucer” that came here in the “beginning.” Many Hopi traditional report flying craft, piloted by the beings they call kachinas, such as the one in 1970 that Frank Waters reported. That a UFO would appear at a specified time was doubtful, but that a white man had announced the UFO appearance to confirm Hopi prophecy was more doubtful. On Friday, August 7, 1970 hundreds of Hopis and Anglos from miles around gathered at 17 18
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Raymond Andrew Keller II Prescott, Arizona to see the flying saucers or UFOs appear to confirm Hopi prophecy. That they were called by a white man, the “Flying Saucer Prophet” who had managed to gain the confidence of the Hopis, was doubtful. There was less doubt from many onlookers that something did appear. The managing editor of the Prescott Courier reported: “It looked like a star — almost. It rose in the sky, stopped, hovered, wavered to one side and then continued across the sky repeating the maneuvers. It was a long ways away, but we thought it changed colors from a white to a reddish orange and then to a purplish blue and then a reddish white. And then it was gone. A flying saucer? Yes, if we could believe our eyes.” His Sunday edition headlined the story, with pages of photographs of six flying saucers, of the 100-year-old Hopi chiefs and the Flying Saucer Prophet; reports from many people in the area who had seen the saucers; feature stories from a dozen UFO research experts; and a full, detailed account of the Hopi prophecy. Due to the wire service’s policy not to publicize UFO sightings, no mention of this extraordinary story was made in any other newspaper.19 Star Ancestors and star craft in Native America are as ancient as the people. Wallace Black Elk spoke of ancestors from Sirius, the Dog Star, “came a long time ago, maybe 300,000 years.” Others from the Pleiades came later. White Buffalo Calf Woman who brought the sacred pipe to the Lakota is the female representation of the Pleiades in the Taurus Constellation. Mayan Timekeeper Gerrado Barrios reports that the Maya’s knowledge came from the Pleiades. White Buffalo Calf Woman who brought the sacred pipe to the Lakota is the female representation of the Pleiades in the Taurus Constellation emblemized as the Bull. The Yurukare Indians of Peru tell the story of Tiri who opened the Tree of Life to them. “It tells how their ancestors hid in a mountain cave during two worldwide cataclysms that destroyed a former age. All other humans were killed in a fire that fell from the sky, followed by an all-consuming deluge. Tiri alone of all the deities took pity on the survivors of sinful humankind by opening the Tree of Life, from which new tribes stepped forth to repopulate the world. Mu was known as Tau, the Tree of Life.”20 Masters of the stars returned to Mexico on July 11, 1991 in the most highly documented UFO wave in modern history thirty-five miles south of Teotihuacan in Mexico City. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the streets of Mexico City to watch an historic eclipse on July 11, 1991, that had been prophesied in the Dresden Codex more than 1,000 years earlier. It was one of the longest solar eclipses and the last total eclipse of the millennium. As the eclipse reached totality shortly after 1:00pm a silvery disc-shaped object hovered silently while more than seventeen people unknown to each other in different locations of Mexico City videotaped the structured vessel. Comparing the large number of videos from locations throughout the Mexico Valley showed the UFO did a hyper-leap; the craft disappeared from Mexico City and appeared within seconds on another video eighty-five miles distant. As the wave of UFO activity in Mexico continued into the next decade it became the most extensively documented activity ever recorded. The Mexican Air Force released photos of 19 20
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The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure eleven UFOs in 2004. It was the first military on the planet to publicly release official photos of UFOs. The Feathered Serpent’s initiation center at Teotihuacan continues to be a powerful cultural presence and UFO hotspot: “My teacher/elder, who is of Mexika/Tolteka blood, has lived in Tenochtitlan [Mexico City] all his life. He has been going to Teotihuakan since the 1920s. He is a descendant of the Texcocoan school of thought, which is more in line with spiritual enlightenment and with Quetzalkoatl. My elder made mention that at Teotihuakan you can see UFOs just about every night. He said Teotihuakan will be a very key site. He also said he communicates with them on a regular basis, which is where he receives much of what he is teaching us. I am a spiritual teacher for young people of Mexika and Taino heritage. I work with inmates in prisons. I have worked on cultural awareness issues, stopping racial ignorance, gang issues, and native circles.” (Frank Blazquez in personal communication with Krsanna Duran) To Men of Earth In the course of his association with Dan Fry, Alan assessed the most critical situation the modern world faces. “Actually the possibility of atomic warfare on your planet, while it is an immediate danger, is not the basic problem, it is merely a symptom... “Your civilization is facing a great problem and, during the last few years, it has become a critical one. Its existence is not the fault of any race, creed or political ideology. It is a problem which develops, sooner or later, in the development of every civilization, no matter where or when it may begin. “When life begins upon any planet, it first appears in the simplest possible forms, but as the ages pass, some forms of that life constantly tend to become more complex and more sentient. At some point in time, a race will appear which has what you would describe as the ‘Human Traits’. They include the consciousness of existence, the need for purpose in life and the realization of a power and intelligence greater than that of any living thing. A civilization may be said to begin when such a genus appears. The quest for knowledge and a purpose in life follows a broad spectrum which can be divided into three major sections for the purpose of discussion and better understanding. These sections can be defined as follows: “(1) the physical or material science, which deals with the needs and desires of the physical body of man, and the nature of the physical universe in which he dwells. In this division are the subjects of physics, chemistry, astronomy etc., as well as the study of the manufacture of the endless number of products necessary to the well-being, the comfort and the security of man; “(2) The social science which deals with the relationship between man and his fellow man, and with the means by which this relationship may be made more successful, more productive and more enduring. In this division are the studies of society, government, psychology, the nonmaterial phases of economics, etc.; “(3) The spiritual science which deals with the relationship between man and the great creative power and infinite intelligence which pervades and controls all nature, and which your people refer to as God; “All of the science in the universe, all the search for truth and the pursuit of understanding will come under one of these headings or divisions. We cannot draw a sharp dividing line
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Raymond Andrew Keller II “And if they do not? I asked. “Then your civilization will cease to be. Alan replied slowly. It will destroy itself in a holocaust that will leave few survivors. Those who do survive will have neither the ability to rebuild their science or their technology. In a few generations their descendants will have returned almost to the level of the animal. Then the process of evolution will begin again. In ten to fifteen thousand years another civilization and technology will emerge. They too will face the same problems, and have the same opportunity for their solution. If it fails, it too will go down. This is an immutable law of the universe, but as you see, it is one which operates according to the free choice of the race. “Your race and your culture are not doomed to extinction. They may continue upon their upward course until they have left this danger behind them forever. “The choice, you see, is yours.”
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First, thanks go to the Venusians who live and work among us for their compassion, protection, understanding, and illumination and without whose efforts none of these Venus books would have been possible. In this category, a very special thanks is mentally transmitted to the reigning Queen of Outer Space and all of her dutiful attendants in the Abejan Hive Collective. My heartfelt thanks and appreciation also go out to Apostle Doris Johnson and all of her wonderful discipleship team at Banner of Truth Ministries on Johns Island, South Carolina. They were the first to believe in me and continued to stand by my side in a sea of adversity. From Apostle Johnson and all of my new Banner of Truth friends, I learned that Hebrews 13:2 was very real. Angels all, they truly are. Additionally, many thanks are extended to the late Lee Shooter of Nichols, South Carolina, who not only inspired me to investigate the flying saucer situation in contemporary Russia and the former Soviet Union, but also helped me do it and encouraged me all along to follow up Venus Rising with the sequels. The next time I visit Venus, I’m sure I’ll meet Lee again at the gates of Paradise. Dr. Raymond A. Keller, II, Ph.D 27 April 2017 Morgantown, West Virginia
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Index Abejar (Venus) 39, 41, 64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 74, 76, 77, 80, 81, 106 Adamics (alien species) 87 Adamski, George 23, 29, 36, 70, 79, 80, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 96 Aetherius Society 25, 99 Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA) 99 An Earth Man on Venus 38 Andromeda (as moon of Saturn, not the galaxy) 15, 16 Angelic Council of Light 69 Angelucci, Orfeo 88 Argo City 82, 85, 89 Atmosphere 15, 48 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 77 Aura Rhanes (Venusian) 5, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, 89, 90, 103 Azure (Venusian city) 72, 76, 78, 104 Barker, Gray 21, 22, 26, 30, 71, 93, 94, 98 Barrios, Dolores, see also Lady Orda, Queen of Outer Space, Queen Orda 5, 29, 37, 68, 89, 90, 94, 117 Basque Pyrenees region 74 Beatrice 35, 70, 80 Bee Collective 64 Bender, Albert K. 26 Bethurum, Truman 70, 71, 72, 77, 88, 89, 103, 105 Bider, Haydee Tamara Bunke 73 Bifröst 41 Bigfoot 21, 22, 92 Binder, Otto 81, 84 Blaylack, Terry 104, 106 Born This Way 3, 74 Boys from Topside 30 Braun, Wernher von 50, 53 Brokkr (Venusian) 63 Bush, Vannevar 27
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Californium 66, 78, 80, 82 Clarion (Moon base) 5, 70, 71, 72, 73, 89, 104 Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP), See also CUP Newsletter 24, 26, 128 Chinese Communist Party 21 CJOR (Vancouver radio station) 28 Code of Kronos 40 Contact International 33 Cosmic Voice (magazine) 99, 101 Crandall, Lee 94, 95, 96, 97 Cree (Native American), proverb of, 10 CUP Newsletter 24, 25, 26, 128 Cyther Dome 67, 68, 69, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 102 Cytherium 66, 78, 79, 80, 81, 106 Daily News (Los Angeles, California) 87, 89, 90, 98, 99 Department of Transport (Canada) 27, 28 Dimension X 5, 91 Divine Feminine 74 DNA 12, 34, 63, 75 Dong, Paul 20, 21, 22 Drake, James 43, 44 Duplantier, Gene 25, 26 Duran, Krsanna 4, 7, 34, 91, 92, 94, 108, 118 Dwiggins, Don 87, 89, 90, 98, 99 Dysmas (the Good Thief) 39, 40, 66, 67, 68, 69, 79, 104, 105 Ecole Polytechnique 12 Elders of Mars 18 Elijah (prophet) 30, 105 Emperor of Venus 56 European Space Agency (ESA) 11, 12, 42, 43, 45, 46 Eva (Princess of Venus) 64, 65 Exopolitics Toronto 9
Federation (of planets) 15, 16, 37, 66, 75, 77, 78 First Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention 80, 86, 97, 98 Flying Saucer Report (magazine) 25 Flying Saucer Review (magazine) 34, 35 Flying Saucers and the Three Men 26 Fort, Charles 23 Freya (Norse goddess) 40, 62, 63, 64, 65 Fry, Daniel W. 83, 89, 97, 99, 100, 101, 113, 115, 118, 120 Ghoul, Joseph C. 22, 23, 24 Gőppingen (Germany) 80 Graham, Billy 17, 18 Goddess of the Galaxy Record 18 Gouxing, Zhou 22 Green, Gabriel 99 Greenland ice sheet 55 Guevara, Ché 73 Hai, Ching 18, 19, 20, 22 Hatoyama, Miyuki 20 Hellyer, Paul 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24 Huygens (space probe) 12 Hynek, J. Allen 21, 24, 36 I Rode a Flying Saucer 86 Ilmuth (Venusian) 41 Journal of UFO Research (China) 21 Kara Zor-El 78 Keffel, Ed 29 Keyhoe, Donald E. 26, 27, 28 King, George 25, 99, 102 Kolob (dark central sun system at galactic core) 40, 41, 75, 78, 105 Krakatoa (volcano) 55
Lady Encara 70 Lady Friggia 40 Lady Gaga 74, 83, 107 Lady Orda 67, 68, 69, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 95, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 Lady Sophia 40 Leslie, Desmond 23 Lost Horizon (movie) 87 Lucchesi, Dominick 71 Majestic 12 (MJ-12) 12, 27 Manhattan Project 27, 111 Maple Heights Press (newspaper) 25 Mariner (space probes) 13, 14, 57 Mars 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 27, 41, 42, 56, 57, 87, 114 Mars Express (space probe) 12 Meier, Billy 36 Metrons (Lords of Kronos/time keepers) 67, 68, 74, 78 Midgard (Earth) 41 Moldek (lost planet) 87 Moon 5, 14, 25, 36, 45, 46, 52, 54, 55, 56, 70, 71, 80, 88, 89, 91, 107 Mormon Mesa (Nevada) 5, 70, 89 Moseley, James 22, 71 Most Bizarre Things I’ve Encountered 20 Mt. Palomar (California) 29 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 11, 12, 13, 14, 25, 42, 43, 46, 54, 55, 65 Neff, Earl J. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 128 Ness, Elliot 25 Nexus (magazine) 22, 24 Nimbus (Venusian device) 74 Norcans (bee people) 62, 63, 64 Nordic Blondes (alien species) 14
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O Cruzeiro (magazine) 29 Octavian Augustus 74 Office of Scientific Research and Development (United States) 27 Omni (magazine) 21 Orsic, Maria, see also Lieutenant Orsic 39, 40, 46, 103 Orthon (Venusian) 87 Pearson, Lester B. 10 Phobos (moon of Mars) 12 Pleiades (star cluster) 15, 36, 63, 117 Progress Review (Paradise, California) 95, 96 Project Bluebook 16, 17, 21, 36 Project Diana 91 Project Magnet 24, 27, 28, 29, 30 Project Sign 16 Qi Gong 21 Queen Freya 62, 63, 65 Queen of Outer Space 5, 6, 29, 37, 74, 77, 84, 86, 104, 123 Queen Orda 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73, 75, 76, 80, 81, 82, 83, 89, 94, 99, 104, 107 Queen Ni Nu 103, 105, 106 Reagan, Ronald 20, 21 Roman Empire 7, 74, 105 Royal Astronomical Observatory (United Kingdom) 57 Sarin (gas) 61 Saucer News (magazine) 71, 94, 98, 101, 104 Saucers, Space and Science (magazine) 25 “Scientist, The” 12, 63, 64 Senate Space Committee 13 “Shining Path” 41 Short Grays (alien species) 14 Sitchin, Zecharia 54 Smith, Wilbert 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Spartacus (Venusian patrol craft) 103 Specht, Günter 39, 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 Sprinkle, Leo 34, 91, 92 126
Star of Bethlehem 16, 17 Strangeway, Robert J. 41 Supergirl (comic book) 81, 84, 107 Tall Whites (alien species) 14 Teleportation 16 Tennessee Tuxedo (television cartoon) 68, 69 Theosophy 33, 34, 87, 92 Titan (moon of Saturn) 11, 15, 103 Trench, Brinsley Le Poer 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 True (magazine) 27, 81, 97 Tyr (Venusian) 62, 63 UFO Mirror/Space Drive (magazine) 35 United States Air Force 14, 16, 21, 36, 100 United Venusian Republics 74 University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 13, 41, 42 University of Maryland 43, 128 University of Oxford 12 Uranus 73 Valiant Thor (Venusian) 39, 73 Vallee, Jacques 88 Van Tassel, George 80, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 99 Venera (Soviet Venus probes) 14 Venus Express (space probe) 11, 12, 46, 47 Venusian Hierarchy of Light 16, 36, 73 Venusianische Luftwaffe (Venusian Air Force) 63, 64 Victory One (mothership) 39, 40, 103 Virgil 69, 70, 73, 78, 79, 105 Vril 62, 63, 64 Vril-yaren 62, 63 Vulcan (Venusian) 39, 40, 41 Web of Life, 92 Wegener, Alfred Lothar 55, 56 Weston, Alan T. 25 Williamson, George Hunt 87, 88 Wilson, Colin 12, 28, 77 Wizard of Oz 67
Xiannian, Li 20 Zarka (alien child) 32 Zeta Reticuli (star system) 15 Zor-El 78, 82, 90, 95, 103
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About the Author Raymond Andrew Keller, a retired history professor, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and currently 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. 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 Stahr 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. The Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus and The Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventures are his third and fourth books; the first being Emergence of the Afro-Zulians in the Transatlantic World, 1722-1811 (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2013) and the second being Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet (Terra Alta, WV: Headline Books, 2015). 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 (WVU), receiving his master’s degree in Spanish, with an emphasis on magic realism in 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, receiving his Ph.D. in African History from WVU in 2011 with an emphasis on the diaspora of African peoples in the Sur del Lago Maracaibo region of Venezuela in the eighteenth century, and focusing on a contingent of Imbangala warriors from Angola brought over by the Basque sea captain and privateer Juan de Chourio to stem incursions of the Motilones Indians into Spanish settlements in that region. Keller is currently working on his third advanced degree as a theology student at the Community of Christ’s Graceland University Temple School in Independence, Missouri.
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Cosmic Ray and The Birth of Venus at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Museum of Art on 20 March 2017.
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, the first book, 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.
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure
Cosmic Ray’s Excellent Venus Adventure is the third thrilling book in mythologist, magic realist, and ufologist, Dr. Raymond A. Keller’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning Venus Rising series. Some of the interesting—and real individuals—you'll meet in this book of astounding science include: A Canadian defense minister who “spilled the beans” about Venusians and other aliens living and working among us and “Cosmic Ray” traversing Dimension X with the Queen of Outer Space, Dolores Barrios. A couple from Northern California travel along with their group’s membership to every UFO meeting and sky watch in 1950s California with the hopes of reconnecting with Venusians they once encountered in the Mojave Desert; Krsanna Duran of TimeStar reveals startling new revelations that will shake the ufology universe. A Nevada road construction foreman at Mormon Mesa, Nevada, just outside a nuclear testing site, who encounters a female saucer pilot. Sporting a beret and looking quite the revolutionary, her name is Aura Rhanes and she is from the Venusian space base Clarion on the far side of the Moon. She’s monitoring atomic blasts in the desert. An Aerojet missile contractor who flew in a remote controlled flying saucer from White Sands, New Mexico, to New York City and back in less than 30 minutes, in 1949 no less. Never-before-seen photos taken by the contractor of Air Force personnel attached to him while working on the development of the top secret Falcon missile's dual radar and heat-seeking targeting systems are included.
Book III of the Venus Rising Trilogy: A Concise History of the Second Planet
Raymond Andrew Keller II