The main tourist attraction of Marfa, Texas. From a viewing area about 10 miles east of the town, the lights are visible. They are said to appear to bounce around in the sky, vanish and re-appear. The Marfa lights are considered a mystery by some. To others, the lights are not a mystery. They are navigational lights for space aliens or ghosts or swamp gas or radioactive bursts. Really naughty skeptics, who view the lights with strong binoculars, claim that they are nothing more than the headlights and tail lights of cars in the Chinati Mountains on U.S.highway 67.
reader coments
18 Nov 96
I read your Marfa Lights page.
I think you missed it. Yes, with binoculars you can see the car
lights on the highway going south out of Marfa. But if you turn your
binoculars east of there you will, on occasional nights, see the Marfa
Lights. I saw them in 1989, and it was clear they were uncorrelated
with the clearly visible car lights in terms of color,
distribution or movement. The Marfa lights do not appear every night,
while the car lights do - hence the confusion.
Mike Zolensky
reply: Well, that explains the confusion. Everybody's been looking in the wrong direction! Sounds like they're misguided to me.
further reading
"The Marfa Lights - A Mystery" by Rosemary Williams