What Are The Marfa Lights?
Imagine standing outside in the desert of west texas, it's cold under the clear, inky, night sky. The cold, crisp wind blows in your face catching you off guard, sending a shiver down your back. You look down to zipper up your warm Aeropostale sweater to keep in the body heat. Your eyes adjust as your view shifts back to the desert plains. When suddenly, a burst of bright light, southeast of you catches your attention. It flickers, it splits apart, it glows, when out of nowhere more appear, with diverse colours this time. All at once, it suddenly changes your emotions from excited , to scared, to absolutely amazed. You stand there gobsmacked. Imagine, this is what experiencing the Marfa Lights is like. According
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Academics, too, have tried to offer a scientific explanation for the enigmatic lights. A group of physics students from the University of Texas at Dallas concluded that headlights from vehicles on nearby U.S Highway 67 could explain at least some of the reported sightings of the Mara Lights. - But, this would not be the explanation for the so called “Marfa Lights” seen in 1883.
Another possible explanation is the refraction of light caused by layers of air at different temperatures. This optical illusion, sometimes called a superior mirage or a “Fata Morgana,” according to Skeptoid.com, occurs when a layer of calm, warm air rests above a layer of cooler air.
A Fata Morgana is sometimes seen in the ocean, causing a ship to appear to float above the horizon. The temperature gradients needed to produce this optical effect are common in the West Texas desert.
Still others speculate the Marfa Lights may be caused by the same gases that create the glowing lights associated with swamp gas: phosphine (PH3) and methane (CH4). Under certain conditions, these gases can ignite when they contact oxygen. This glowing phenomenon, sometimes called “will-o-the-wisp,” “ignes fatui,” or “fools fire,” has been observed around the world, especially in marshy areas where the decay of organic matter can create pockets of phosphine and
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According to this website, strange lights were filmed over Liverpool on Sunday evening, in April 2016. The lights caused confusion between observant local residents. Residents in Bootle, Anfield, and Kirkby all reported seeing the phenomenon. There were several lights of different sizes moving in random directions in the clouds. Lots of people speculated the flashing, moving lights were extraterrestrials. Could they possibly be those so called “modern day pterodactyls”? Here’s what some Twitter users suspected the lights could
While some say the event can only be observed during clear weather, the night I saw the lights it was fairly cool, misting rain and very foggy. It was quite amazing to see. We had been sitting at Wisemans View for almost 4 hours and had almost given up when a faint glow appeared on the side of the mountain. We watched it move slowly down the mountain then a second light appeared. They both descended down until reaching the river at the bottom. The lights disappeared completely and after a few seconds reappeared on the other side of the river. The hairs on my arms and on the back of my neck stood up. We continued to watch the pair of lights move along the ridge until they just
Here are some of the legends about the “Dover lights.” One of the legends is about Spanish conquistadors back in the 1600s or 1700s looking for gold in Dover, Arkansas, but of course, they never found any. Another legend is about a Coal mine in the mountains. Miners were looking for coal. One day they were mining, and all of a sudden the cave ended up collapsing, and killing/ crushing several miners. Another legend is about a Native American burial ground, and the lights are the spirits of chiefs, or leaders, leading their people to the after life. And the last legend is about a lonely couple back in the 1800s, the wife fell ill, and her husband looked everywhere for a doctor. After the husband found a doctor, the doctor helped her, and nurtured her, the man, and wife are poor, but the husband was very good at making hunting weapons (guns, etc.) the man offered the doctor several dozen rifle bullets. The doctor agreed to take the bullets as payment. Time passed on, the doctor soon became successful with life, and he was very wealthy. One day he was looking through his attic, and he came across the bullets that the man gave
The Marfa Mystery Lights are visible on may clear appear in various colors as they move about, slit part, melt together, disappear and reappear.
Whew! It is HOT up here! I’m in the Thermosphere, where the spaceship left me behind, and I am so hot. It is not this hot where I was born. Hey! What are those lights? They are beautiful…… whoah. Hey, well, I guess here I go, right on through them. Blues, greens, purples, reds, pinks, it is so cool! I think I heard of them before…...the Northern lights? Yes, that’s it. Hey, it getting cold.
The new image of a triangular UFO in the midst of a lightening storm is shocking. Aliens may have harnessed the Earth’s natural occurrences to charge their space ships. Or are lightening storms a product of alien technology?
However, yesterday’s eve was special enough to overrule the limits of light pollution. In lesser-known stargazing sights, such as Battery Park, or the rooftops of Dumbo, several fireballs were seen between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a. m.
Obviously, the first step to fog light installation is opening the fog light box. When opening the fog light box, make sure to do so carefully. After you empty the contents of the box, lay out all of the contents of the box including the instructions.
It is understood that the aroras are causes by the earths electrical properties and its influence with the sun. The suns energy stimulates the electrically charged particles that are within the earths own magnetic field and in turn causes this colourful display. These are wonderful sight to see but they also interfere with many modern equipment we use today
The lighting of this sequence also represent a sense of searching for somebody. All of the lights including the car lights and the men’s flashlights are the symbols of searching and exploring which makes those scenes more frightening.
Aerial photos taken in 2005 show the phenomenon of glowing water. Whatever causes this phosphorescence to vent up from the Bahama Bank bottoms, if that is its cause, remains a mystery.
The work of Steven Holl is one of endless exploration. His interest in the phenomenology and perception of space is seen in his work. Daylighting is an essential “material” in his work, his intuition and experimentation are a process he embraces. He focuses both on the scientific exploration but also a deep human experience. “Science remains essentially mysterious, yet our daily scientific and phenomenal experiences shape our lives, experience sets a new frame from which we interpret what we perceive,” says Steven Holl. His use of phenomenal lighting as well as scientific lighting, combine
Transition*** The first point I would like to expand on, is what the Northern Lights are, and where they are found.
In the middle of a September night in 2015, Iceland’s dancing skies put on a spectacular show. At around 3:30 am, the flash of a massive phoenix made an appearance and was gone just as fast. This astronomical phenomenon is called an aurora. The vibrant lights that move across the dark skies attract the attention of many stargazers, tourists, and astronomers. As a result of the large attraction, astronomers have studied the interaction between the earth’s atmosphere, magnetic field, and the suns energy.
Fireflies are so beautiful. They disappear and magically appear at some distance in the dark giving the illusion of something out of this world.
What I hope to bring forth in these articles is the often not heard of Phenomena that is just as prevalent in the Southern Hemisphere.