Marfa Lights (No! Car Headlights!): IEA Video

[Texijapi1010]

@prestonesque First of all, practically every history of the Marfa Lights says that they were noticed in 1883 by a ranch hand who took them to be Apache campfires. And how do you find that being able to match one vehicle in one test a valid, 100% correct conclusion? Any real scientists would perform the experiment multiple times with multiple vehicles to be sure, but as they didn't, the "evidence" they came up with cannot be considered valid.

[danielgarciacdz]

nope! it's Chuck Testa!

[splashtx556]

the people of this town came up with this SCAM to keep thier poor sleepy little town alive. thislittle town is near 60 miles off the beaten path, i have sat on hwy 67 south many many times over looking the valley that the lights are supposed be seen at. its an old abandoned air port that lies just south of the observation deck on hwy 90. hiway 67 south climbs the side of a small mountain and curves around the side of what could called a cliff.you can see that intire valley for 60+ miles.

[splashtx556]

the people of this town came up with this SCAM to keep thier poor sleepy little town alive. thislittle town is near 60 miles off the beaten path, i have sat on hwy 67 south many many times over looking the valley that the lights are supposed be seen at. its an old abandoned air port that lies just south of the observation deck on hwy 90. hiway 67 south climbs the side of a small mountain and curves around the side of what could called a cliff.you can see that intire valley for 60+ miles.

[KeMoniito]

I don't claim that there's got to be another 'supernatural' explanation to it or nor do i want an explanation to be something more 'extraterrestrial' but the 'car lights' THEORY is not satisfactory and to me is just bullshit made up by wanna be 'scientists' to justify their lack of real knowledge and their capacity to come up with better answers....

[PatCat63]

To all the dummies who use Wikipedia.... ANYBODY CAN WRITE WHATEVER THEY WANT ON IT. damn. There IS documentation that they were first spotted in 1883. It can't be cars. To all the people who say they don't see them, they show up every night. I've lived in Marfa for 19 years. They have a viewing center between Marfa and Alpine. Check it out AT NIGHT! Skeptics can suck on my thang.

[cliffordanthonypaiva]

Vertical displacement is required. To remove the emission source saturation in the visible pass, serious study requires millimeter radar wave observations...not routine optical digital cameras. Horizontal target motion are designated as headlights. Anyway...this is my take on Marfa. I do not discount Marfa Lights, however much more controlled work is needed.

[MrLion484]

@bonchbonch

Look, you can play the "they proved it" game all you want, your only half right, I sat there and saw them flicker different colors more then 3 and I sat there and and saw them go vertical straight up and down your winding horizontal highway, yea I beleive that headlights make some, this video was headlights, but seriously, you can't sit there and say everyone of those lights are car headlights when the people of this town has been freakin out over the shit for 150 years.

I'm just sa

[JustAnotherSomeone90]

I'm afraid >.>

[wannnagback]

these lights have been there since the 1800's so NOT from cars!!

[rangerjesse]

@wannnagback There are no credible documents of the Marfa lights in the 1800's. Check wikipedia on the Marfa Lights history. Study the lights for yourself. I am a local and see them all the time. I have video taped them many times and have worked the local ranches (even at night). They are headlights.

[WILLIAMFOLIAO10]

They´re are ufos, ovnis, spacial sonds, orbs, ods, spacial naves. Fantastic!

[coperoper22]

but when one goes off in your car while you whatching try to dismiss that

[h1lk1a]

ovnis!

[MudHut67]

So if it isn't just the highway, what else could it be ( that makes logical sense)

[whitneyglass1]

marfa lights r scary!!!!! lol

[ybyainc]

Um- i saw those lights one night and i can tell you that there is NO WAY IN HELL they were just car lights. They were moving from one point to another point far away, we are talking a few miles between points, .. moving in straight lines or curved lines, continuously visible. There is not ONE explanation i have heard from skeptics that sounds even CLOSE to making sense. I have no idea what those lights are, but the simple explanations i have heard do not add up at all.

[bonchbonch]

@ybyainc It's already been proven that they're car lights. The winding highway in the distance creates an illusion of moving lights in the darkness. Using caps lock randomly for emphasis doesn't make your claim any more valid.

[ybyainc]

@bonchbonch You really think you have furnished me with enough information to "burst my bubble"? You could at LEAST give a link to some information regarding this "proof" I'v heard the car lights argument many times but have never seen any scientific proof of this THEORY. I have no idea WHAT the lights are. There was one university study involving flying a plane over the area, using spectrometers etc, but all of the scientific studies i know of regarding this phenomenon are INCONCLUSIVE.

[bonchbonch]

@ybyainc It doesn't matter what I provide. You've convinced yourself that these are real. The Society of Physics Students at the University of Dallas determined that the lights are nothing more than car headlights weaving down highway 67 in the distance. They even parked a tracking vehicle on highway 67 and flashed its headlights, and this was visible at the viewing spot. A car that passed the tracking vehicle was also visible from the viewing spot and appeared as a Marfa light.

[ybyainc]

@bonchbonch YES, the info on wikipedia regarding the U.D study seems to prove the Marfa lights are car lights. HOWEVER, 1 of the 5 "conclusions" stating that"The motion of the observed lights was in a straight line, corresponding to U.S. 67." is BULLSHIT. I and many others have seen those lights flying all over the place- high, low, vertical, diagonal, horizontal across a huge area at very high speeds. See them yourself and explain how atmospheric condtions can do that with car lights.

[bonchbonch]

@ybyainc Dummy, did you even read the report? The movement of the lights is an illusion of the winding highway in the distance. I have seen the Marfa Lights myself. They followed a clear pattern.

It's been proven that they're car lights. End of story.

[MasterTxJ]

@bonchbonch Exactly. Even in this video if you were to just speed it up with a video editing software one can clearly see that the lights are following the same path (road). If one were to draw tracelines to these they would most likely match the winding of the highway seen from that particular position far off in the distance. Or just let the camera stand there on it's mount til sunrise and the answer would be given. Someone should really try to do a zoom in timelapse of the marfa lights.

[KeMoniito]

@bonchbonch oh sure... 'car lights'.... just because wikipedia told you so... you are an idiot.... if there was any truth to that claim, -and there isn't any- we would see this kind of phenomena in many places with the same topography and the same roads conditions. it would be a common phenomena reported everywhere , not just in Marfa.... are you suggesting that this place is unique and is the only place in the world where 'car lights' are mistaken for 'ghost lights'..?..

[bonchbonch]

@KeMoniito No, it's not just because Wikipedia said so. It's because a study has already proved that they are car lights. You're mad that your little mystery is gone. They even had a tracking vehicle drive the highway and were able to match it to a visible light from the viewing location.

And, yes, car lights are in fact reported everywhere and are often mistaken for "ghost lights." You are the idiot.

[KeMoniito]

@bonchbonch Hey , idiot... are you aware that there is such a thing as QUACK science...???..Did you know that doctors recommended smoking in the 40's claiming that smoking was in fact a healty habit and Camel had t.v ads claiming that it was the brand that most doctros smoked..?.. if you where to live in te 40's and someone told you that smoking causes cancer, you would probably come up with an idiotic answer like you are doing right now.. SCIENCE is never conclusive and this is inssuficient.

[bonchbonch]

@KeMoniito So you would rather dismiss a scientific study as "quack science" so that you can believe in magic ghost lights? Who's the idiot here?

[KeMoniito]

@bonchbonch No, you imbecile, im just saying that it would be better to continue with other studies... it would be great if they could shut down the highways and any traffic and do the investigation.. im not saying that headlights can't be the answer, im just saying that there should be other studies.

[bonchbonch]

@KeMoniito There have been other studies and investigations. However, the one in which they matched a tracking vehicle on the highway to a visible light seems pretty conclusive.

[Texijapi1010]

@bonchbonch So are you trying to convince me that cars existed in 1883, the year the lights were first reported?

[prestonesque]

@Texijapi1010 The lights weren't reported in 1883. That's an urban legend with no source.

[MarcosASPP]

Well, i´m not sceptic about UFo´s and that kind of stuff. But is interesting, all i see in youtube about mafra´s lights is always light far far away, but never someone´s recording those lights in a closer range. That, guides my self to believe they are traffic lights.

[ybyainc]

@MarcosASPP I actually AM a UFO skeptic. You need to go see those lights, you will take back what you just said, i PROMISE you that. I saw those lights 2 years ago, and there is NOTHING that makes sense about them. Go see them and you will be completely at a loss to explain them.

[sandosrules]

That video is not the Marfa Lights. I've seen them for myself and they move much quicker there can be one light that will suddenly separate into three or more lights, they can move from the far horizon at incredible speed then be back at the far horizon in an instant. They can white in color and then go orange or yellow. You will know for sure when you've seen the Marfa Lights. The hair on the back of your neck will go straight up while you watch them.

[bonchbonch]

@sandosrules These absolutely are the Marfa Lights. You're describing the optical illusion of car headlights traveling down the distant highway in the darkness. It's already been proven by a group of science students that they are car headlights.

No, the hair on the back of your neck will not "go straight up," and even if it did, that's not proof of anything other than your own emotional reactions. These are car headlights, nothing more.

[AliasUndercover]

Now, those look like car headlights in an atmospheric inversion. The others I've seen look like peizoelectric discharged from the quartzite sand. Cool, but it's just ball lightning. Still, it real purty...

[aete2007]

marfa lights have been around since the 1800's there were no cars back then so how did they appear?

[k2texas]

You're right, these are clearly not the Marfa Lights. The real lights change color, split, and have no predictible pattern whatsoever. I can see where someone looking in the wrong place would see car lights.

[bonchbonch]

@k2texas Uh, these are the Marfa lights, and the Marfa lights do NOT "change color, split, and have no predictable pattern whatsoever." It's been proven that they're car headlights.

[bonchbonch]

When I was a kid, my family stopped at the viewing site and saw the lights. I remember noticing a predictable pattern. It makes sense for them to be distant traffic.

[ybyainc]

@bonchbonch NO it doesn't. Go back and look at them again. That shit is NOT car lights.. there is NO WAY.

[bonchbonch]

@ybyainc It's already been proven that they're car lights. There's a highway where the lights appear, and a tracking vehicle matched one of the visible lights to a vehicle traveling on it. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[bonchbonch]

@ybyainc It's already been proven. They matched a vehicle on the highway to a visible Marfa light. How many times must this be repeated before you accept it? THEY MATCHED THE LIGHTS TO THE CARS ON THE HIGHWAY.

[thamuddler]

youre lookin the wrong way. ur lookin at 67, need to look further east

[TSM8088]

Clearly cars travelling along a distant highway.

[pokemon2221]

y are all the lights white i read something and it said they where other colors to