AudioBlog: The Mystery in Marfa, Texas

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer
Investigators.”In Marfa, Texas, there is a phenomenon known as “The
Marfa Lights” that has been around for a long time and still
remains a mystery. It’s been studied by members of the Society of
Physics Students from the University of Dallas and a retired
aerospace engineer, James Bunnell. The students thought people were
seeing car headlights on U.S. 67. Bunnell thought there was more to
the lights than mere misidentification.According to the Texas State
Historical Association website entry on the subject by
Julia Cauble Smith, the first historical record of a mystery lights
sighting dates back to 1883. According to Smith, Robert Reed
Ellison, a young cowhand, saw a flickering light while driving
cattle through an area known as Paisano Pass and thought it might
be coming from an Apache campfire. Other settlers told him they had
seen lights on other occasions and when they investigated, they
found no signs of fires in the area. This has been used as an
argument against the car lights on U.S. 67 explanation by defenders
of the mysterious nature of the lights, such as Ariel Slick, who
posted an article on the Deep South
Magazine website headlined “Marfa Lights: The Spirit of Texas”
on August 19, 2022. Read more