Tom Cruise building '£5m bunker to protect against alien attack'*
Last updated at 14:11pm on 28th September 2007
Hollywood star Tom Cruise is planning to build a bunker at his Colorado
home to protect his family in the event of an intergalactic alien
attack, according to new reports.
The Mission Impossible actor, who is a dedicated follower of
Scientology, is reportedly fearful that deposed galactic ruler 'Xenu' is
plotting an evil revenge attack on Earth.
Bunker down: Tom Cruise, on set of his latest movie with wife Katie and
daughter Suri, is reportely fearful of an alien attack
According to American magazine Star, a source said: "Tom is planning to
build a US$10 million bunker under his Telluride estate."
"It's a self-contained underground shelter with a high tech air
purifying shelter."
The facility is said to have enough room for ten people - including wife
Katie Holmes, 17-month-old daughter Suri and his adopted children
Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12.
a spokesperson for the actor has denied the reports, saying: "This is
completely untrue. He is not building on his property at all."
The 45-year-old is currently filming World War II movie Rubicon
(formerly known as Valkyrie) in Germany, where he is regularly joined on
set by Katie and Suri.
Tom plays German hero Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg in the
wartime thriller surrounding a failed plot by high-ranking military
officers to blow up Hitler and has come under attack for his decision to
do so as well as his religious beliefs.
The controversial film depicts the ill-fated plan to blow up the
dictator on July 20, 1944, which he survived, with the plotters
subsequently paying with their lives.
The Colorado property where Tom Cruise is reported to be building a bunker