Corey Armpriester interviews painter Bud Hopkins (b. 1931). Hopkins was a Cedar Tavern regular, Mark Rothko's lunch companion, and friend of Robert Motherwell. Hopkins is an abstract expressionist artist with works in "the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum." He is also "a pioneer in the field of UFO research … and has written books on the UFO phenomena…