Independence Day Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details

They filmed Will Smith dragging the alien across the salt flats of Utah. Will Smith improvised the "And what the hell is that smell?" Nobody warned him of the horrible smell that sometimes comes of the Great Salt Lake due to billions of dead brine shrimp each year.

The explosion of the primary weapon of the alien destroyer during the climax of the film, is the same explosion from the Empire State building getting destroyed, except flipped upside down.

- Featured the Powerbook 5300 as the "computer that saved the world". In reality, it was regarded as the worst laptop from Apple, having been recalled for batteries bursting into flames on the assembly line and in an Apple programmer's house

The satellite destroyed by the approaching alien ship has a Death Star replica on it, foreshadowing the upcoming planet-wide destruction.

When Jeff Goldblum looks up his wife's address in 'Independence Day' (1996), it reads as "123 Heresheis Avenue."

Will Smith buys his girlfriend (Vivica A. Fox) a dolphin engagement ring because "she has a thing for dolphins." Here in an earlier scene she is seen wearing dolphin earings.

Russell Casse (Randy Quaid) is ridiculed for claiming to have been anal probed by aliens years before. In the end, he heroically gives his life by flying his jet into the "anus" of the alien spacecraft, thereby exposing that their weakness is also being probed.

Randy Quaid's character Russell says he was abducted by aliens and insinuates he was anally probed. When he destroys the alien ship he flies his plane into the ship's "behind"

During the battle after the virus upload, the war room thought all missiles had been fired because he accidentally armed it before take off. It's also the probable cause for the malfunction during the battle.

At the beginning some one says that they hope the aliens bring back Elvis, at the end of the movie Will Smith says "Elvis has left the building"

Who is pulling the fire engine horn in Independence Day (1996)?!

A distinct cats meow is heard when the second missile that Will Smith launches hits the target.

Will Smith told his friend Jimmy 'don't get premature on me' when he put his 'victory dance' cigar in his mouth before they'd won. Their squadron lt. colonel in home base did the same thing, and both he and Jimmy died in alien attacks.

The countdown is just striking 9:11 as he opens his computer to check after boarding the helicopter.

The English Teacher from Pretty In Pink is behind President Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)