Marfa

[Penguin]

Some people say that they want to see Europe before they die, or Hawaii, or Australia perhaps.


I want to see the Marfa lights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights) before I die.


Marfa.


MARFA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gresho Murford]

In May 2004, a group from The Society of Physics Students at the University of Texas at Dallas spent four days investigating and recording lights observed southwest of the view park using traffic volume monitoring equipment, video cameras, binoculars, and chase cars. Their report [1] made the following conclusions:

* U.S. Highway 67 is visible from the Marfa Lights viewing location
* The frequency of lights southwest of the view park correlates with the frequency of vehicle traffic on U.S. 67
* The motion of the observed lights behaved in a predictable fashion
* At least one light was directly correlated with a vehicle on U.S. 67 observed by a chase vehicle.

They came to the conclusion that all of the lights observed over a four night period southwest of the view park could be reliably attributed to automobile headlights traveling along U.S. 67 between Marfa and Presidio, TX.

Other people claim that researchers with longer running studies have photographed mysterious lights south and southeast of the view park.[citation needed]

[Penguin]

No! The lights are aliens, not headlights.


Never believe wikipedia.

[Gresho Murford]

No! The lights are aliens, not headlights.


Never believe wikipedia.

You have a point. Plus it was done by the University of Texas. ****ing nonbelievers

[iwannabelikesam]

Oklahoma has their own spooklight, too. It's up in far northeast Oklahoma, right at the border with Missouri, near Quapaw.

There are two wikipeida links for the same thing for some reason:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spooklight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joplin_ghost_light

Supposedly the spooklight existed before I-44 was there.

[swardboy]

I have seen the Spooklight numerous times. Spooks me every time.

[StoopTroup]

Anything texan is a fraud.

[Curly Bill]

Anything texan is a fraud.

You do know that Billy Sims, AD, and various other Sooner greats are from Texas? :O

[StoopTroup]

shut up.

[Curly Bill]

1st Amendment beyotch!

I'm exercising it. :D

[StoopTroup]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z6PX6sNFgQQ/SR2Tz8LumhI/AAAAAAAAATU/ndF1eTLy6rY/s320/1st+amendment+11-13-08+b-hummel.jpg

[trwxxa]

or it just could have been Randy Quaid

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6636433.html:D

[pilobolus]

I've seen the Marfa lights, and what that study doesn't attempt to explain is how the lights vary in color, intensity, etc., nor that they are documented as being present decades before cars were commonplace.

[Leroy Lizard]

If I wanted to see a bunch of car headlights I don't need to travel to Texas to do it.

"At least one light was directly correlated with a vehicle on U.S. 67 observed by a chase vehicle."

That seals it.

[bluedogok]

Marfa has become what Santa Fe used to be, an artist enclave that has been moving "upscale" for the past few years. My wife had family who lived there and she grew up going to see them there. She was shocked when I told her one of the designers I worked with went down there and raved about the place, she still thought it was nothing but a dusty little town like so many others out in West Texas. After all, there is a Prada (http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasArt/Prada-Marfa.htm) in Marfa.

[Okla-homey]

Google "vortac." They have one at Marfa. Then, do the math. You're welcome.

[StoopTroup]

Ya gotta do math? I usually just dial it up.