Atlantis Rising

History

Atlantis Rising was published bi-monthly by J. Douglas Kenyon from PO Box 441, Livingston, Montana 59047, beginning in the mid-1990s. Kenyon served as both publisher and editor for the magazine's entire run. The publication sold for $4.95 per issue on newsstands ($5.95 in Canada), with subscriptions at $24.95 for six issues. It was distributed through magazine racks, subscriptions, direct promotional mailing, and the internet, achieving wider retail penetration than most alternative knowledge publications of its era.

The magazine operated at the intersection of ancient mysteries, suppressed science, UFO secrecy, and alternative archaeology. Its table of contents for any given issue might run from Egyptian pyramid engineering to cold fusion to Steven Greer's disclosure campaign to Moroccan evidence for Atlantean settlement. Regular columns included "The New Heretic" by Eugene Mallove (editor of Infinite Energy magazine and a cold fusion advocate murdered in 2004), "The Forbidden Archaeologist" by Michael Cremo (author of Forbidden Archaeology), and feature articles by Len Kasten on UFO disclosure politics. Other contributors across the run included John Chambers, William P. Eigles, Beverly Jaegers, Frank Joseph, John Kettler, Cynthia Logan, and Laird Scranton.

Issue 29 (September/October 2001), the only issue held in the archive, carried "Information Wars: Steven Greer's Latest Challenge to UFO Secrecy," covering the Disclosure Project's National Press Club event of May 2001 where twenty military and intelligence witnesses testified publicly. The same issue featured Christopher Dunn on the Great Pyramid's internal chambers, Frank Joseph on Atlantean origins in Morocco, the Lake Vostok anomaly beneath Antarctic ice, California geoglyphs visible only from the air, and Dogon astronomical knowledge interpreted through modern physics. The breadth was typical: each issue wove UFO and government secrecy content into a wider tapestry of suppressed and forbidden knowledge.

Kenyon had originally conceived the project as a film. In his publisher's column for Issue 29, he described completing a screenplay called "The Atlantis Dimension" in 1983 while living in Los Angeles, registering it with the Screen Writers Guild. The magazine grew from the same impulse: making lost history accessible to a general audience through vivid, accessible writing rather than academic presentation.