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	Marfa lights
		The Marfa lights are lights which are visible from a viewing area about 10 miles east of the town of Marfa, Texas.
		The lights are said to appear to bounce around in the sky, vanish and re-appear, and thus are considered a mystery by some.
		They are ghosts or swamp gas or radioactive bursts or ball lightning or navigational lights for space aliens or headlights and taillights of cars in the Chinati Mountains on U.S. highway 67.
	skepdic.com /marfa.html (103 words)

	Marfa Lights - Crystalinks
		It is extremely difficult to approach an ongoing display of the Marfa Lights, mainly due to the difficult and dangerous terrain of Mitchell Flat.
		The dominant skeptical explanation seems to be that the lights are a sort of mirage caused by sharp temperature gradients between cold and warm layers of air.
		Marfa is located at an altitude of 4,688 feet above sea level, and temperature differentials of 50-60 degrees between high and low temperature are quite common.
	www.crystalinks.com /marfa.html (911 words)

	THE MARFA LIGHTS THE ENIGMA LIGHTS OF MARFA AN UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON BY ELWOOD WRIGHT AND
		THE MARFA LIGHTS THE ENIGMA LIGHTS OF MARFA AN UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON BY ELWOOD WRIGHT AND
		One of the lights appeared to be south of the Chinati Mountains, one appeared to be north, and one appeared to be in the Mountains.
		The first light slowed down near the road, crossed the road less than 1000 feet in front of their car, and continued to the east where it seemed to merge with or meet a third light which was brighter and was between their car and the vicinity of the old air base hanger.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys3/marfalit.htm (1896 words)

	Eric Shackle's eBook - Mystery Lights
		This study says "The [Marfa] Lights are in fact car headlights, reflected off white soils that cover the sloping surfaces of mesas and ridges along the northern flank of the Chinati Mountains.
		The lights, he says, are actually an inverted mirage of light sources which are, in some cases, hundreds of miles away over the horizon.
		In the light of the morning after the demonstration, Pettigrew said, there was a spectacular Fata Morgana of a distant mountain range, which supported the idea that the Min Min had been due to the specific atmospheric conditions at the time.
	www.bdb.co.za /shackle/articles/mystery_lights.htm (2001 words)

	Marfa Lights and the Mystery Lights Festival, Marfa Texas. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marfa Lights and the Mystery Lights Festival, Marfa Texas.
		These were from ground level to upwards of 20 meters in the air, brilliant enough that they lit up patches of ground some 200 meters in diameter with such intensity that we could distinguish the shapes of individual bits of brush, even from a mile to 2 1/2 miles away.
		You haven't lived until you have seen the Marfa lights on a moonless night while flying solo in a Cessna 182.
	www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/Marfa_Texas/MarfaLightsMarfaTexasMysteryLightsFestival.htm (483 words)

	marfa lights: the ghost lights of texas - envasion.net
		and near big bend, 500 miles away from the city lights of dallas (or "the big d" as locals call it) the night sky stretches farther than the imagination.
		just outside of the tiny west texas town of marfa (population just over 2,000), visitors pull off the side of highway 90 and wait until dusk, when the mysterious lights inevitably arrive.
		i didn't understand the marfa lights anymore than i had the day before, but it didn't matter.
	www.envasion.net /2003/marfa.html (794 words)

	Marfa Lights
		The blinking and disappearing of the lights are caused by cars traveling over twists and dips in the highway momentarily pointing their headlights at, or sweeping their headlights past, the Marfa Lights viewing area 25 miles away.
		Marfa lights may appear on the ground at close range to observers and move rapidly beyond speeds of which reflected cars or trains at this distance are capable.
		In order to categorize each light, it is necessary to learn as much as possible about each sighting including locations of other known lights in the area, ambient weather conditions, locations of roads, and precise bearings (direction) of all observed lights.
	www.earthlights.org /marfa_lights.html (1327 words)

	Marfa, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marfa was founded in 1883 as a railroad water stop, and grew quickly through the 1920s.
		Marfa Army Air Field (Fort D.A. Russell) was located east of the town during World War II and trained several thousand pilots before closing in 1945 (the abandoned site is still visible ten miles east of the city).
		Marfa may be most famous for the Marfa Lights, visible every clear night between Marfa and the Paisano Pass when one is facing southwest (toward the Chinati Mountains).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marfa,_Texas (1136 words)

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		The Marfa Lights are without a doubt the most famous ghost lights around.
		The Marfa Lights appear in the desert around the Chianti Mountains in West Texas.
		contends that the lights are the spirit of one of their chiefs, or stars falling from the sky.
	ufovault.netfirms.com /maf.html (596 words)

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		Marfa Texas is in one of the most out of the way places to be found in these United States.
		Marfa is technically not close to anywhere and is in southwestern to south Central texas, if that makes any sense.
		The Marfa lights are another one of those phenomenon that no one seems to be able to explain to anyone's satisfaction.
	empireezine.tripod.com /oddities/marfa.html (967 words)

	The Mysterious Marfa Lights
		Yet near the town of Marfa, Texas, many a car and truck has come to a dead halt at night, pulling to the side of the road or just stopping in the middle of the highway, to watch the famous eerie Marfa Lights that often dance across the far horizon like fireflies at play.
		The cowboy had been tending to his herd near Marfa when apparently the cattle became spooked with the appearance of one of the tiny fire balls.
		A research team spent countless nights (at varying times of the year) at the optimum spot for viewing, using sophisticated equipment including light meters, spectrum analysers, etc. In the end, the only thing they were able to determine for certain is the Marfa lights are indeed a mystery.
	wintertexans.com /marfalights.htm (842 words)

	Car Lights
		That is understandable when you consider that car lights negotiating that mountain highway do look plenty mysterious and are available nightly in contrast to 'real' mystery lights that appear only about 10 to 30 times a year (some years are better than others for reasons we do not yet understand).
		Regrettably, these pseudo-scientific efforts never conclude that the lights didn't show or that their efforts were in vain.
		Skeptics frequently refer to Alto Technology's report as "scientific revelation" that Marfa Lights are reflected car lights but the only thing mysterious that night was their misunderstanding of observed vehicle lights.
	www.nightorbs.net /car_lights1.htm (642 words)

	An Experimental Analysis of the Marfa Lights
		Light Patterns: If the lights are car headlights, it would be expected that they would follow some predictable path.
		Traffic Patterns: If the mystery lights are indeed automobile lights it would be expected that the number of lights should be strongly correlated to the amount of traffic along US 67.
		News: Opponents to automobile headlights as the source of the lights claim that the mystery lights have been observed from Marfa long before the construction of the highway or the invention of the electric light [1].
	www.utdallas.edu /~roddy/Marfa_Lights/marfa_lights.htm (1155 words)

	Marfa,Texas - DesertUSA
		Marfa is known primarily for its famous Marfa Mystery Lights and as the location for the shooting of the classic movie "Giant," with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Dennis Hopper and James Dean.
		Marfa also stands as a gateway to many exciting areas of West Texas and beyond, from the nearby border towns of Mexico to Big Bend National Park to the scenic drive through the Davis Mountains.
		The Ghost Lights of Marfa, as they are now called, were first reported more than a century ago when Robert Ellison, one of the area's first settlers, witnessed these mysterious glowing orbs in 1883.
	www.desertusa.com /Cities/tx/marfa.html (600 words)

	Marfa Lights - Natural Phenomena or UFO Activity?
		Marfa, Texas is approximately 1200 miles from our city; a hard two day drive.
		This was separate from the actual Marfa Lights that looked like yellow flares in the distance.
		Also, when videotaped, the Marfa Lights themselves recorded as diamond shaped as the optics stripped away the red orange color.
	www.geohanover.com /docs/marfa.htm (439 words)

	The Marfa Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The mysterious balls of light seen near Marfa, Texas are among the most interesting of all.
		The lights' principal "haunt" is a huge expanse of desert range called Mitchell Flats, located in the Lone Star State's southwestern lobe.
		At various points during the observations we saw only distant, anomalous lights which were un-photographable due to their brevity and a very annoying dewpoint which kept fogging our lenses.
	www.research.umbc.edu /~frizzell/marfa.html (355 words)

	Marfa Lights
		Marfa, the largest city in the County, boasts a whopping population of 2,500.
		They appear as distant bright lights on the Mitchell Flats and are distinguishable from ranch lights and automobile headlights on nearby Highway 67, between Marfa and Presidio, by their aberrant movements and behavior.
		The Marfa Lights, on the other hand, are seen year-round in all kinds of weather and under all sorts of different atmospheric conditions.
	www.theoutlaws.com /unexplained1.htm (5581 words)

	marfa41
		Hyperspectral Analysis of the Marfa Lights Alto Technology Resources is in the business of providing airborne sensor and satellite analysis of various terrain covers throughout the world.
		No lights were seen on the data, except the radio beacon, a few cars and the town of Marfa itself.
		The Marfa Lights have heretofore mostly defied conventional explanations, because there are major inconsistencies in the hypotheses presented thus far.
	www.astronomycafe.net /weird/lights/marfa41.htm (2895 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Marfa lights are visible every clear night between Marfa and Paisano Pass in northeastern Presidio County as one faces the Chinati Mountains.
		Giddings, who grew up watching the lights and whose father claimed he was saved from a blizzard when the lights led him to the shelter of a cave, considers the lights to be curious observers, investigating things around them.
		The most plausible explanation is that the lights are an unusual phenomenon similar to a mirage, caused by an atmospheric condition produced by the interaction of cold and warm layers of air that bend light so that it is seen from a distance but not up close.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/MM/lxm1.html (481 words)

	Marfa Mystery Lights - Reflected Headlights
		This study says "The [Marfa] Lights are in fact car headlights, reflected off white soils that cover the sloping surfaces of mesas and ridges along the northern flank of the Chinati Mountains.
		The lights, he says, are actually an inverted mirage of light sources which are, in some cases, hundreds of miles away over the horizon.
		In the light of the morning after the demonstration, Pettigrew said, there was a spectacular Fata Morgana of a distant mountain range, which supported the idea that the Min Min had been due to the specific atmospheric conditions at the time.
	www.senioryears.com /marfa.html (2085 words)

	Catching a falling star \| Metro.co.uk
		Marfa is a little town in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas that is famous only for being the place where James Dean filmed his last movie, Giant, and the presence of a viewing platform that teems with people come dusk.
		The first recorded sighting of the lights was in 1883 by the rancher Robert Reed Ellison in an area of the desert called Mitchell Flat, but they occurred many years before that in Native American folklore where they were described as 'stars falling from the sky'.
		He believes the lights occur when high-energy subatomic particles from the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the Earth are drawn to the Earth's magnetic field.
	www.metro.co.uk /weird/article.html?in_article_id=15064&in_page_id=2 (846 words)

	X-Project: Marfa Lights and Miller Lites
		The Marfa Lights (named for their location near the town of Marfa, Texas) are reported to be 1 - 10 feet in diameter.
		Others say the lights are the ghosts of Pancho Villa and his crew, cursed to wander the desert forever.
		Still others speculate that the lights are a government invention, used by the military to warn of invasion.
	www.xprojectmagazine.com /archives/paranormal/marfa.html (467 words)

	Marfa Lights
		The Marfa, Texas phenomena is a classic example of ghost lights, a phenomena commonly explained by scientific principles.
		The Marfa Lights appear on almost every night of the year and have been witnessed by literally thousands of onlookers.
		The lights appear out of nowhere and dart, flip, and dance across the vast plains to the amusement and astonishment of curious onlookers.
	www.spartechsoftware.com /dimensions/mystical/MarfaLights.htm (570 words)

	TXGenWeb Presidio County, Texas - The Marfa Lights
		With this arrangement, he was able to sit in a lawn chair at night and, with a flick of his flashlight, to sight the reflectors and determine whether a light in the desert was a car or a ghost light.
		I don't cotton to the explanations of static electricity or phosphorescent minerals, or that the lights are mirages.
		The lights are there for you to see, but after 100 years of sightings and the attempts of even the best of expeditions, I suggest that when you visit Marfa you investigate its fine Mexican food instead.
	www.rootsweb.com /~txpresid/marfalights.htm (4196 words)

	The Marfa & Saratoga Lights
		When they first started to see the lights, the people in the first car -- who were out on the hood, laughing and carrying on -- all got back in the car, rolled the windows up and locked the door.
		The Association spent four nights watching the Saratoga Lights, and they discovered it was headlights out on the 787, a road nearby, just like the Marfa Lights.
		By the way, the Association also spent some time studying the Marfa Lights, and just as everyone told me through e-mail, the lights are simply car headlights.
	www.wintersteel.com /Marfa_Lights.html (1338 words)

	marfatx
		The first recorded sighting of the Marfa Lights was in 1883 when a young ranch hand named Robert Reed Ellison saw what he thought was a flickering Indian campfire.
		From the mundane belief that they are merely car lights heading south on Highway 67 towards Presidio, to the more folkloric interpretation of an Apache chief's wandering spirit on the Chinati Mountains, the lights continue to fascinate and attract large crowds.
		The Marfa Lights Festival is celebrated every Labor Day Weekend around the Historic Presidio County Courthouse.
	www.marfatx.com /b_lights.asp (375 words)

	The Mysterious Marfa Lights
		Yet near the town of Marfa, Texas, many a car and truck has come to a dead halt at night, pulling to the side of the road or just stopping in the middle of the highway, to watch the famous eerie Marfa Lights that often dance across the far horizon like fireflies at play.
		The cowboy had been tending to his herd near Marfa when apparently the cattle became spooked with the appearance of one of the tiny fire balls.
		A research team spent countless nights (at varying times of the year) at the optimum spot for viewing, using sophisticated equipment including light meters, spectrum analysers, etc. In the end, the only thing they were able to determine for certain is the Marfa lights are indeed a mystery.
	www.wintertexans.com /marfalights.htm (842 words)

	The Marfa Mystry Lights of Marfa, Texas
		Other than the movie ''Giant,'' which was filmed nearby, Marfa's worldwide claim to fame lies on the sage-covered desert east of town, where mysterious nocturnal lights have baffled residents and scientists since the first settlers arrived in 1883.
		To the great joy of the Chamber of Commerce, Marfa's lights have ''never done anything bad.'' A favorite local story concerns a professor at Sul Ross University who became lost on a hike near Twin Peaks.
		Never seen the Marfa lights," snapped a Sul Ross student who was tending bar at the local ''private club'' in Fort Davis.
	www.fabuloustravel.com /ww/marfa/marfa.html (670 words)

	Rhode Island news \| projo.com \| The Providence Journal \| Home & Garden
		MARFA, Texas –; Emigrés and weekenders bristle at comparisons to Santa Fe, N.M. Not Santa Fe today, but the dusty adobe village at the beginning of its meteoric rise to cool and hot.
		Marfa bears many similarities to Santa Fe 30 years ago: remote location, vintage adobe architecture in various stages of ruin, discovered by artists and writers followed by cosmopolitan people of means.
		Sightings of Marfa's mystery lights were first recorded in 1883, and the discourse still rages about their origin.
	www.projo.com /sharedcontent/features/housegarden2/102706ccwchgmarfa.7dd1ad8c.html (1898 words)

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