Walter Kirn
PersonAuthorWalter Kirn
PersonAuthorWalter Kirn is an American novelist, essayist, and editor whose interview with David Grusch brought a literary and institutional critique to the UAP disclosure debate.
Walter Kirn is an American novelist, essayist, and editor whose interview with David Grusch brought a literary and institutional critique to the UAP disclosure debate.
Walter Kirn is an American novelist, essayist, critic, and journalist. Educated at Princeton and Oxford, he wrote fiction and criticism for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, Time, and New York magazine. His novels Thumbsucker and Up in the Air were adapted into feature films, while Blood Will Out examined his relationship with a man later exposed as an impostor and murderer.
In 2023, Kirn and David Samuels launched County Highway, a print publication styled after a nineteenth-century American newspaper. As editor-at-large, Kirn has pursued stories about overlooked places, institutional distrust, technology, and contemporary belief. He also co-hosts America This Week with Matt Taibbi, bringing a skeptical attitude toward elite narratives and media consensus to current events.
Kirn entered the modern UAP story by traveling to Colorado to interview intelligence whistleblower David Grusch. His County Highway profile focused on Grusch as a person and on the moral effects of alleged secrecy rather than merely repeating technical claims. Kirn has since discussed information from unnamed aerospace and intelligence contacts, including claims of craft moving through space. Those reports remain source testimony without publicly available sensor data.
Kirn approaches media coverage of UAP as a literary investigation of credibility, power, and the costs of hidden knowledge. His own experience being deceived by “Clark Rockefeller” gives his interest in charismatic and institutionally credentialed sources an unusual edge, though it does not guarantee correct judgment. He treats whistleblower testimony as a human and political story while leaving the most extraordinary claims dependent on evidence that has yet to be released.
Considering that a UAP Media Advisory Council exists, I’d love to ask Walter here, @tomdelonge, and also @g_knapp if they’ve been offered to be part of it? Beca [Quoted] It would be a great day to tell the truth about UFOs!
Excellent idea, Mr. Kirn. And if I may: admitting the truths about Roswell 1947 can so easily serve as step 1 in this process. And it can all happen literally t [Quoted] It would be a great day to tell the truth about UFOs!
[Retweeted] Rupert has a delightfully trippy mind. One of my favorites. Long live the learned eccentrics. https://t.co/aJAz5ionfT
Symmetrical and with faintly elvin features? If Grusch really said that to WK, why not to Rogan? Grusch: "It wasn't super close up. Oddly [beautiful]. Very, v [Quoted] He described this crash scene and the state of the occupant/occupants to me months ago. The creature was almost out of a fairy tale in terms of beautiful, symmetrical, prefect, ye faintly elvin features https://t.co/Dpfm13Iy7D
[Retweeted] He described this crash scene and the state of the occupant/occupants to me months ago. The creature was almost out of a fairy tale in terms of beautiful, symmetrical, prefect, ye faintly elvin features https://t.co/Dpfm13Iy7D
[Retweeted] He described this crash scene and the state of the occupant/occupants to me months ago. The creature was almost out of a fairy tale in terms of beautiful, symmetrical, prefect, ye faintly elvin features https://t.co/Dpfm13Iy7D
RT @walterkirn: The Israelites were led through the desert by a pillar of smoke & a pillar of fire. Manna fell from heaven. Ezekiel saw t…
RT @walterkirn: What I find interesting about the secrecy is that it's not quite secrecy. It almost resembles an attempt to keep the intere…
RT @walterkirn: Those who know my patten will expect a UFO post soon. But I'm not going to do it.
