The Marfa Lights (Texas Country Reporter) 

I went out there atleast 10 times... I always saw something... and one time in particular there were many phenomena involving them moving, changing color, changing size, going onto the desert floor and going up into the sky... the experience was shared with several people.

Grandparents both born and raised in Marfa. Been going since a kid and recently took my kids to see the lights.

its 2021. And nobody sent a drone out to see if they can get closer? Maybe trail cams?

I've always loved your show over the years. Your wife Meg was my jr high teacher in the early 70s. She told us how sometimes she would ride with you during production. Thanks for the great work!

This must be 25 or more years old. That’s about how long my wife and I have been making the drive down from Midland to see them. They are much more enjoyable to watch since the Clayton and Modesta Williams viewing pavilion was built. With restrooms! Some nights are duds. Our first time to see them years ago was probably the best. They put on a spectacular show for hours. Whites, ambers, reds, greens and even blues were seen. They danced, streaked across the ground, split into twos and threes and converted back to a single light and even shot up into the air like bottle rockets. They seem to have an intelligence at times. You quickly begin to distinguish the genuine Marfa lights from the stream of distant headlights on Hwy. 67 once you’ve seen both. Viewed through strong binoculars they have a plasma appearance. My feeling is that they are caused by some sort of piezoelectric chemical reaction in the soil. As the night air gradually cools the ground, the lights seem to diminish most nights, but not all. They are truly mystery lights!

I’ve always wanted to see the Marfa lights. Worth a trip out there to see the lights and the James Dean connection to Marfa. Thanks Bob.

These are also common in the deserts of Arabia. Bedouins there call it “Abu Fanous”. It’s a common belief there that the source of these lights is some kind of mischievous Djinn (aka demons) to lure people lost in the desert into quicksand or get them even more lost.

I’ve seen them. Amazing👍

I also find it interesting how ppl from different cultures relates the phenomenon to their shared knowledge interpreting it differently.

I got excited when RU-vid showed me this - I hadn’t thought about Texas Country Reporter since I moved away in the 90s. “Wow, they are still going?” Then I see the clip is from 1990. And realize I probably watched it back then sometime. Flashback!

My grandmother use to tell me stories about lights floating and flickering behind their horse and wagons before street lights. She said they were green and red. She said it was a common occurrence.

What is shown on this video is exactly what I witnessed.

We just saw the Marfa lights last night. There were the orange and red lights in the distance hovering above the ground and flashing really slowly until they appeared somewhere else. I was thinking it could be an optical illusion of sorts and the lights were coming from the cars. I was showing my dad how to look through these binoculars to look at them, and all of a sudden this bright green light appeared much higher up in the sky and shot straight down and disappeared. Everyone awed around us and I was like: “what the heck was that?”

Ive been there and seen them multiple times - its unexplainable but definately real. Its never the same. Put it on your bucket list!

Groups of friends went to see them many times when I attended Sul Ross in the 70s. The lights didn’t show up the first time or two we went, but it was a pretty common thing to do back then so kids went a lot. There was never any large or close up ball of light; they were always off in the distance. We’d just pull off into a field and wait. Most of the time we’d see them, different numbers and colors. Sometimes they’d dance around, kind of bounce up and down, disappear then reappear somewhere else. It was entertaining, not really creepy. But then I was 18-19 and not much was creepy back then.

That's crazy, I seen similar lights on 2 separate occasions here in mid Michigan. The first were a pair of 2 traveling with eachother and both slowly dimmed one after the other and then just disappeared. The second was a very bright singular light flying higher than a plane I seen fly under it slowly heading north until eventually dimming and disappearing aswell. I also got a video of the the second sighting.

I've been there twice. If they were seen in the late 1880's, it certainly wasn't a car. It's a really cool place that is simply unexplainable. My guess? Too many to list. But it's a wild natural sight for sure.

My friends love going to Marfa once a year.

Here after watching a king of the hill episode that mentioned this, and man this is one heck of a story that I think more people should know about

I’ve seen them and they are crazy to see!

Why not use satellite or drones to view them up close?

Wow!

Cool vid..

When I was there to see the lights I brought my binoculars, the lights that I saw correlated with traffic on Hwy 67. However I was told by a border patrol that the lights do not appear every day and when they do, they travel erratically.

I have seen the marfa lights 1883 so people that dismiss them as headlights are in a word wrong. It could be a mirage but the problem is you can also see them when there is no temperature inversion. Could be a form of swamp gas. The most unlikely explanation is it's a ghost carrying a lantern looking for his head. Plain fact of the matter is they are still unsolved and perhaps they should stay that way. People often mistake Martha lights for the headlights on the highway but the real Martha lights are quite different and distinct. Also they appear in different colors sometimes they're yellow sometimes they are red sometimes they are even blue. When you mistake Marfa lights for headlights than there usually a pair of them and usually they are white. The marfa lights can split into two and can zig-zag and go in all different patterns proving that it's not a car. And they can merge into a single light and zip off at amazing speed. All of the people that dismiss them as nothing but kors wrong look for another explanation. I have even seen orbs float around and when they hit the power lines there's an explosion. It could be swamp gas but all of them can't be explained as swamp gas. I mean the military employed the best scientist who offered a lot of theories but no proof. You cannot put your theory out there as the absolute answer if you cannot prove it. My personal belief is it is Saint Elmo's fire or some kind of swamp gas. Just putting my theory out there I don't say is she answer because I, like them, cannot prove it.

We were young-Ins when you went out to Marfa !

What amazes me is how many people buy into the car light theory LOL. The Marfia lights have been reported for over 135 years.Well before highways,cars or electricity on the ranches existed.seen them a few times, definitely unexplainable.

Miss the 80s so much. It is all garbage now compared to back then. Wish I could travel back in time.

Love this guy.

I read an article about this in a newspaper almost nine years ago.

We usually see this marfa lights in saudi everytime we’re traveling at night or when we go to spend times in the desert almost everyone there saw it if not in the desert definitely in the roads when they travel, it’s normal for us and we believe if u chase this light it will lead you to get lost in the middle of the desert. It is very interesting to spend time in the desert you will see many paranormal things.

Nice

We have similar phenomena in western NC, Brown Mountain Lights at Linville Gorge and Thomas Divide Overlook in the Smokies.

This fenomenal happened all around the world, in indonesia, Thailand etc, this happened since the ancient time.

We were there with a group of people many years ago. Some of the group could not see them. Thought that was weird.

I read about these mysterious lights in a book called "Haunted Highways". So interesting.

Arabs called it ( jin Abu fanus), nobody tried to follow the light because you either will be lost or it will leads to dangrous road. But i tried to follow it, when i came closer it just disappeared and started to shine in defferent dirction then i knew that i will never be able to reach it.

They are ULOs, Unidentified Lit Objects.

Pollen from the Peyote....

Looks like the same lights at Rosales Chihuahua, behind the Cerro de la Cruz.

i remember taking the bus from to texas as a kid around 2000, one particular time we were traveling through the pitch black desert and suddenly there was a bright spot light off in the horizon, following side by side for a mile till it disappeared, it looked huge and was probably a mile or from us. It wasnt unusual to see lights in the sky moving in odd directions either, almost every time we went we saw something in the sky moving in a odd way, some even zigzagged. Still, not the strangest things ive seen.

I was raised in alpine. Use to go see them regularly. I’m 45 now and I STILL don’t know how it works

when u see random orbs in desert, just dont follow it

high quality videos as usual...

These little one and two lights is not remotely a serious display. They've are awesome. A crowd of people I was in were ooohhhhhing and aaahhhhing every 15 to 30 seconds. Most of these people simply have seen the real deal.

you can see the light in arabinan deserts too

When I was in a band on the road in the 70's I visited the spot in Marfa and observed the lights. They looked like house lights against the hills (mountain) and would then go straight up like a bubble in a carbonated drink. I don't see that in these videos. Went there 3 or 4 nights in a row.

One cannot believe this until they see it.

I saw a video shared on facebook. It showed a similar light but in a tropical forest instead. It was moving erratically.

That one guy with the world's brightest flashlight

Oh wow, Fritz when we was still alive! I recall the lights, the airport, the ranches, beauty & solitude forever ♥️

Has anyone just walked up to the area while it's happening? There must have been. I find it strange that this isn't being researched more. So are the ruins I saw near the viewing area on Google maps are from the airbase? is that the area where the lights occur?

We have lights like that here in N.C. to. They appear on Brown Mountain and no one can explain what they are.

Am I crazy to think it might be an easy thing to figure out? If the lights appear most nights, why not just move closer to them the following night. If they find a highway close to that location, case closed....headlights. Why would everyone stay that far away just to see them? Doesn't make a lot of sense.

They are real. I thought they were car lights for a while. Then the show began. Just like the guy described in the video. The move all over the place, get bright them dim, even seem to evaporate and shine again. You have to see it to believe it.

Those blinking light , lol , lightning bugs for sho.

Lekker man lekker

I witnessed these and it was fantastic. I got a baseline watching the house lights coming on and the traffic on the mountain to the west as the sun set and then it began. Blobs of light started popping up and began moving towards us. This was 1993 and I was with my mother on a trip to West Texas just after my dad passed. I took my wife there in 2008 and it was misty/overcast, and we didn't see anything. But 1993 was special. Also, we stayed at Hotel Paisano in 93 and 08. It's where the cast of Giant stayed when that film was made. It's a wonderful hotel.

How about the"brown mountain lights"in North Carolina?😎😎😎

Has anyone tried to chase them down? Or get close? I'm all sorts of interested in stuff like this! I'm always in texas somewhere because I drive over the road, would be cool to go there and see for myself.

I’ve seen a light in this area. It was really close and definitely not a car light. At first I thought comet or asteroid and just left it there until I heard Dan Akroid mention it on Joe Rogan.

We have something similar in Norway Hessdalen. It looks almlost completely the same.

I'm seeing lights exactly like these in Llano, TX right now

The Marfa Lights have been proven to be reflective. Depending on either atmospheric elements or vehicular traffic. It's fun to speculate though.

👍💪

I went there once and I'll be back very soon. They were neat but one was blinking like an ambulance and then an ambulance passed by 10min later blinking the same lights heading towards alpine. maybe I wasn't even looking at the correct lights, but anyways it was interesting.

Has there ever been any cattle mutalations in the same area, or any crop circles formed?

I hear of orbs in woods all the time usually where sasquatch are found. Make fun all you want, they're out there

why hasn't a group of people gone out and stand in the fields to see what they are? viewing from a mile or two away is going to tell you nothing but speculation

Coming from an energy source in the ground. Similar to the Northern Lights from the sun

If i were to show these to my grandparents they would say those lights are witches lol

It's "swamp gas." Fer shure.

I’ve seen them in Hawaii!

i see it a lot in my county Oman! Maybe it is Jin!!

JRE brought me here

less footage of the locals, more footage of the lights. zoom in and unblur

Aliens

What the heck is that up in the sky at 2:11 ???

This is abu fanus which mean Lantern owner A kind of devil that you will not see and you will not be able to approach him. He only exists in the desert so that you believe there is someone and walk until you are lost in Saudi Arabia in the huge desert you will see the light and all know that light if you follow it you will lost

They are kind of Demons that lives mainly in the deserts, they also appeared in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, many people who were driving in the deserts faced death for following the light as they get lost in the middle of the desert or end up crashing their cars in to rocks or mountains.

The lights cannot be Car lights because 1. They move too fast and 2. They have been reported being seen since before the age of automobiles.

pretty common in Saudi Arabia

Seriously. Time for some rich youtuber to send a swarm of drones out there to finally find out. 135 years issalonnngtiimmmee

It’s Houston traffic headlights

those are vehicle headlights 20 miles away .....

There is something is out there they must be waiting for us

2022, me thinking it's stars

They’re optical illusions 🙀

Es la migra dando su recorrido habitual pero lo logré y me les pele aquí ando en Oklahoma

Drones,bruh: use fries to chk it out bruh...

Mina Rite or fools golden ?

I went to see them.but everyone saw them but me.i think I was 15, at the time I'm 36 now.ehh others saw them but me I was disappointed but oh well.

I have a theory.

Stacked bars probably of Spanish descent, gold , gold buried at a certain depth radiated by the Sun ☀️ and electrically charged by natural process during lightning storms produce a significant electrical discharge or flares at dusk and especially on days of 60% humidity or higher can act as a movie screen 🪞 reflecting the gold flare being a super conductor. Stacked bars of gold can discharge electrical flares depending on the purity of the gold and the intensity of the Sun ☀️ for how ever many days , and how it's stacked can produce geometric shaped flares a old way to recover gold stashes and even a way to booby trap the gold stash was a strong enough electrical charge to stop the human heart ( dead mans gold. ) aleast for who ever touches it without discharging the stack . Usually the Spanish just had a unwitting guy grab it and then they continued with their business of recovery who knows?

Military/police drones. They used to sit outside my house

Marfa Lights Strength:??? Speed: 10 To 1000 Durability:??? Attack speed:??? Clones: 3 To 99999999999999999 Nickname: UFO's

Been to Marfa, watched for hours, nothing.

This is jinn

ufo @2:35 ?

Use night vision goggles.