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A Marfa light (center) seen from the official viewing platform east of Marfa, Texas. The Marfa lights, also known as the Marfa ghost lights, are regularly observed near Marfa, Texas, in the United States. [1] They are most often seen from a viewing area nearby, which the community has publicized to encourage tourism. [2]
You visit the Marfa Lights Viewing Area about 9 miles outside of town, and the town also holds an annual festival. The festival will take place this year, but the exact dates haven't been announced.
Aug. 13—The Marfa Mystery Lights are often a local legend with strong opinions on whether the phenomena actually exists or not. Nonetheless, each year, thousands of tourists pass through the ...
Wagon trains on the Chihuahua Trail reported seeing unexplained lights in the mid-19th century. [33] [34] [35] The first recorded incident of the Marfa Lights was in 1883 when Robert Reed Ellison and cowhands camped at Mitchell Flats. [36] [37] They thought the lights might have been Apaches, but later found no evidence of an Apache encampment ...
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (KAUS), Family Viewing Area is located near the State Aircraft Pooling Board (fancy talk for where aircraft belonging to the State of Texas gets maintained and stored) at the end of Golf Course Road. and faces west to runway 17L/35R. The Family Viewing Area also has paved parking, grassy areas, a picnic table.
I checked this skeptic's web site, and indeed, there were the claims, that written accounts of the Marfa Lights first appeared around 1988 when the original Marfa Lights Viewing Area was established, which was when the local business allegedly began to attempt to build the myth to attract tourism.
Four friends on their way home from a Texas cookoff weekend stop at a gas station, where they encounter a fortune teller. They ultimately decide to make a last stop in Marfa, Texas, in the hopes of viewing the strange Marfa Lights. [6]
Marfa, a sub-group of the Maba people of north-central Africa Marfa language, a Maban language spoken in Chad; Marfa front, another term for a dry line; Marfa lights, a possible paranormal phenomena frequently visible near Marfa, Texas; At the Harvest (Marfa and Vanka) [fr; uk; ru], a painting by avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich