Mysterious Texas Lights Draw Crowds

Associated Press ^ | July 16, 2005 | MICHAEL GRACZYK

[sheik yerbouty]

"I see the light, I see the party lights.."

[johnny7]

Swamp gas.

[Graybeard58]

Ball lightening.

[Names Ash Housewares]

many logical explainations certainly,

are there any local businesses that profit from people coming out to see the lights?

[taxesareforever]

More tequila, please.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I've known credible people who have seen them...but if you are gullible, you will see car lights and think you've seen the Marfa lights.

Been at the viewing spot myself...but only once and didn't see them. But it was at twilight, and I can really see how you could get fooled by carlights.

But with them being seen before there were cars, and some by credible people, like scientifically trained observers, I think there is more to Marfa than loose screws. Almost certainly something weird, but rational, like piezoelectrical effects or something that is just right in the valley there.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Swamp gas in a desert valley?

[phalynx]

I have always wondered. Why would an alien craft have lights???????? It wouldn't help you see in space.. IF they have enough technology to get here, they would have enough technology to know where all of their crafts are without lights..........

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Not much. You are way out of the way in Marfa...There are the people who come to Big Bend National Park, or to Ft. Davis (and a lot of these are astronomy buffs), and a lot of ranching people.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

No doubt!

Don't think these things have anything to do with UFOs myself...

[TomGuy]

In Marfa there probably isn't much else to do.

lol


[I've lived in the Soutwest, especially back in the days when many towns could hardly pick up 1 TV station. I also lived in the Mississippi Valley/Ozarks in an area that could only pick up 2 TV stations. Watching fireflies can be entertaining---when there isn't much else to do.]

[johnny7]

Meteor.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

Marfa is in the middle of no where. No businesses to profit from tourists when I was there several years ago.

[Osage Orange]

Wood elf's........

[TADSLOS]

Illegals with spotlights.

[timsbella]

Aliens with giant eyes like those fish at the bottom of the sea surely don't need lights...and note that the ones making the crop circles don't use their's either.

Personally, I like the ones that put Elvis's face on the moon, which begs the question, why not Nixon's?

[phalynx]

And what about the senseless energy wasting that having lightbulbbs on a spacecraft would cause. Although their civilization would be more advanced, I would think they would still have few liberals left. There is never a perfect society.

[Old Professer]

Phosphors?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The Marfa lights are seen low to the ground, but not on the ground, which is why they can be confused with car lights...and the sky around there is so amazingly dark that nearsighted people like me can actually see the Andromeda galaxy (a light smear, but very hard to see in most of the country any more...) But you still normally see meteors looking up....