Case file · High strangeness
UT Dallas tests the Marfa lights
In May 2004 students of the Society of Physics Students at the University of Texas at Dallas watched the Marfa lights for four nights with traffic counters, cameras and chase cars, and found the lights tracked traffic on US 67 between Marfa and Presidio.
2004 CE · 30.25, -103.88 · status: explained
The account
When they parked a car on the highway and flashed its headlights, it appeared from the viewing park as a classic 'Marfa light'. A Texas State University spectroscopy study in 2008 thought rarer 'anomalous' lights still needed work.
The sceptical view
The study cannot explain 19th-century reports, though those rest on later retellings of Robert Ellison's 1883 story.