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The Marfa lights, also known as the Marfa ghost lights, are incompletely understood lights regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States.[1] Onlookers have attributed them to a number of paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, UFOs, and flying dinosaurs, among other things.[1][2] They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby.[3] Many of the lights there have been determined by to be atmospherically distorted versions of headlights on the nearby Route 67, but some lights as of 2017, including those which move backward, dance around, or disappear suddenly, have not been explained.[3] The Marfa lights have also been speculated to be caused by natural methane reserves, similar to the mechanism which causes will-o'-the-wisps, and as a result of piezoelectric charge created by the igneous rock under Mitchell Flat.[4] A set of cameras maintained by James Bunnell, pointed away from common thoroughfares, detected about 40 apparently "genuine" Marfa lights, meaning those with odd behaviour not explainable as highway lights, over the period 2000 to 2008.[5]
- ^ a b Fiumi, Elettra; Stein, Eliot (17 January 2018). "The mysterious 'Ghost Lights' of Marfa, Texas". BBC. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ Feldman, Claudia (19 December 2010). "What's going on in Marfa?". Houston Chronicle.
- ^ a b Rogers, Kaleigh (2017-05-09). "Scientists Can't Fully Explain These Strange Floating Lights in Texas". Vice. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
- ^ Lallanilla, Marc (19 June 2023). "What Are the Marfa Lights?". LiveScience.
- ^ Stephan, Karl D.; Ghimire, Sagar; Stapleton, William A.; Bunnell, James (1 August 2009). "Spectroscopy applied to observations of terrestrial light sources of uncertain origin". American Journal of Physics. 77 (8).