Texas Geocaching Association
TXGA Lone Star Roundup 2024
Marfa Lights Viewing Area
October 18, 2024
8pm - 9pm
Following our dinner event in Alpine, we will head down 90 to the Marfa Lights Viewing Center to try and spot the famouns Marfa lights. What strange things will we see?
According to Wikipedia
The Marfa lights, also known as the Marfa ghost lights, are incompletely understood lights regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States. Onlookers have attributed them to a number of paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, UFOs, and flying dinosaurs, among other things. They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby. 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. 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. 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.