Movie Stars Who Believe in UFOs

Movie stars who believe in UFOs

Russell Crowe nearly broke the internet when he posted a homemade video on YouTube, apparently showing a UFO.
     The Oscar winning actor claimed he had been filming fruit bats over Sydney's Botanical Gardens when his time-lapse camera captured an unidentified red light hovering above the tree line.
     Explanations range from reflections of reversing cars to passing aircraft, and even the odd accusations of photoshopery by old Rusty himself.
     Regardless, Crowe isn't the first movie star to delve into the odd bit UFOlogy, and his story certainly isn't the strangest. Welcome to the weird world of celebrity close encounters ….
     Whilst doing press for alien action Battle: Los Angeles in 2001, Aaron Eckhart told Jay Leno's The Tonight Show: 'I actually have seen an Unidentified Flying Object, there's no doubt about it.' The Thank You for Smoking star went on to reveal how one night he and a group of friends had witnessed a strange red and green light travel across the New Mexico sky 'at speeds that were not human'. At least Eckhart could joke about it though.
     Tom Cruise, on the other hand, possibly took his alien battering performance in War of The Worlds a bit too serious. In 2007 several reports emerged that planet's favourite Scientologist had ordered the construction of a £7 million bunker to protect him from an alien attack. 'Are you really so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?' he told several papers at the time, "There are many things out there, we just don't know."
     Dan Aykroyd prefers a more proactive approach to alien contact, as the Ghostbusters and Blues Brothers star doesn't just reserve his bustin' skills for the undead. He's the official 'Hollywood Consultant' for MUFON – America's amateur UFO investigator network.
     Whilst living in upstate New York in the 1980s, Aykroyd claims to have once woken in the middle of the night and told his wife 'They're calling me. I want to go outside'. Although he was convinced to go back to sleep, the next day, people all over the area reported having the same urge to leave their beds. Those who did venture outside claim to have witnessed a large pink spiral hovering in the sky. Weird.
     In 2005, Aykroyd produced a DVD called 'Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs', an 80-minute staged interview in which he reveals that little green men, are in fact blue.