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

This video is of car headlights that most people mistake for "real" Marfa Lights. The International Earthlight Alliance (www.earthlights.org) proposes that lights at well known Earthlight areas are likely to be a mixture of manmade, natural artifact, and genuine Earthlights. For example at Marfa, Texas, it is likely that many of the lights witnessed at the Marfa viewing area are car headlights descending the Chinati mountain summit on Highway 67. Because the mountain cannot be seen at night in the darkness, the car headlights appear to be suspended in mid-air, blinking off and on, moving, and disappearing. Actually, close examination of videos taken by IEA researchers, shows a distinct pattern of the light movements. 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. But wait! It is a mistake to claim that car headlights are "the only" explanation for the Marfa Lights. They explain some of the observations but not all.

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Science & Technology

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• marfa
• lights
• earthlights
• anomalous

[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.

[prestonesque]

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

[Texijapi1010]

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

[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.

[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.

[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 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 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.