AOL News: Dennis Hopper Film Left Big Legacy to UFO Researchers

(June 2) -- Dennis Hopper may have passed away, but along with his many film appearances, he has left an important legacy to UFO researchers.

That's the belief of Vancouver-based paranormal researcher Jon Kelly, who says the script that Hopper and "Easy Rider" co-star Peter Fonda wrote for the 1969 counterculture classic helped introduce a lot of information about UFOs to a massive audience.

Kelly points to the campfire scene where Hopper (who played Billy) and cast member Jack Nicholson (George) discuss extraterrestrials and their presence on the planet.

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In the 1969 film "Easy Rider," actors Dennis Hopper, pictured, and Jack Nicholson discuss the possibility of alien visitors to Earth.

In the film's dialogue, Hopper states, "I saw a satellite, man. And it was going across the sky. And it flashed three times at me and zigzagged and whizzed off, man. And I saw it."

To which Nicholson replies:

"That was a UFO, beamin' back at ya. Me and Eric Heisman was down in Mexico two weeks ago -- we seen 40 of 'em flying in formation. They, they, they've got bases all over the world now, you know. They've been coming here ever since 1946, when the scientists first started bouncin' radar beams off of the moon. And they have been livin' and workin' among us in vast quantities ever since. The government knows all about 'em."

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