The Marfa Lights

The Marfa lights, or Marfa ghost lights, are “most often reported as distant spots of brightness, distinguishable from ranch lights and automobile headlights on Highway 67 (between Marfa and Presidio, to the south) primarily by their aberrant movements,” per Wikipedia. While some may claim that the lights are caused by cars or houses, or are somehow connected to a nearby airfield, people have reported seeing them since 1883. They are marked by their strange behavior: changing color, disappearing and reappearing, splitting into two and then merging back, and moving erratically. My videos weren’t steady—it’s the camera bobbing up and down, not the lights—but all the other movements were the lights themselves.

The “coughing their lungs out, too” statement was about a family that had brought their horribly coughing child to the planetarium the night before.

Next: one more Marfa post.

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