Marfa Light

Marfa Light

First Observed in 1883

Location: Marfa, Texas

According to local lore, the first settlers in Marfa in 1883 saw the lights, long before automobiles or highways. The Indians living on the land for hundreds of years previous saw them too. Now people flock to the sight hoping to catch their own glimpse, and on a clear night, no one leaves disappointed. Some people believe the lights to be ball lighting or swamp gasses. Others think they are benevolent spirits of the land. Some even think they are alien spaceships. Scientists can only prove that they exist, not what they are, or are not, or where they come from. some groups chase them in their dusty trucks and SUVs trying to catch the lights, but like the end of the rainbow, they prove elusive.