May I ask what the source is of these lights? Seriously, I’m curious.
In 1975 I was part of a geology filed trip with 2 bus loads of students and 2 Geology professors along with a astronomy club that had 5 each 6” clestron telescopes. We observed these Marfa lights for 4 hours. Years later in about 1989 I went back with my brother a doctor and a friend and spent about 6 hours looking at these lights and driving 90 mph down dirt roads to try and get closer before they faded out. I tend to think they are some kind of ball static electricity. To me they look like a person standing 100 yards away holding a flash light that is slowing going dead fading from white to yellow and then out. They would get excited and start to go up and down like a person jumping up and down and then move off to the side say 10 degrees then slow down and fade out. They lasted from about 3 to 10 minutes each and there would be 1 to 10 viewable at a time. They are real and they are not car lights. When I was there in 1974 there were no ranchers or cars at all for miles and miles. It has always bothered me for years that I could not find out more scientific data on these lights.
Wish I knew. They’ve been known to exist for a long time. The first recorded historical record of the Marfa Lights goes back to the 1870s I think. Ranchers didn’t know what they were. Modern studies have been made by teams of geologists and atmospheric experts, but it is still a mystery.
When I saw them it was really interesting. My wife and I waited in the pitch darkness beside the road for several hours. A few other cars pulled over to watch. Then all of the sudden a bright ball of light appeared in the distance before disappearing. Then in quick succession other lights began popping up and burning out. They seemed to hover above ground level in the distance. Some flickered with green, yellow, or redish hues. Other balls of light would split into two and then three lights before burning out. I took video. It was very interesting.