Mystery Solved: Breakdown of Russell Crowe's UFO Video

By Nancy Atkinson - March 7, 2013 at 8:47 PM UTC | Site News

Actor Russell Crowe made some waves this week when he claimed to have captured photos of a UFO outside the window of his office in Australia. It turns out it really was a UFO.... an Unidentified

Floating

Object, which has now been identified. Crowe's office sits on a pier in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, and

via Twitter,

Crowe said that he and a friend set up camera to capture fruit bats flying over the Gardens. "Canon 5D, no flash, can't be lense (sic) flare because it moves, camera is fixed," and "The camera is on a balcony - not behind glass."

But

ParaBreakdown's

Phil Poling has now provided a breakdown of why Crowe's UFO is most likely to be a series of long-exposure photos of a ... wait for it ... passing sailboat with a high mast.

Crowe's footage is below:

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Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com