Sightings2004

UT Dallas physics students attribute Marfa lights to car headlights

When: 10 May 2004
Where: Marfa, TX
Sources: 1 public source

The Marfa Lights Viewing Area, near where the students made their observations Allison Meier from Brooklyn, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A dozen members of the UT Dallas Society of Physics Students spent May 10-14, 2004 filming the Marfa lights, counting traffic on U.S. 67 and sending a chase car. Their 2005 progress report found all lights reliably observed during the study were car headlights.

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FirsthandAn Experimental Analysis of the Marfa Lights (progress report) (opens in a new tab)Society of Physics Students, University of Texas at Dallas (archived copy) / 2005-12-10

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