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Marfa, Texas

30°18′N, 104°01′W — Presidio County, Far West Texas — high desert plateau, elevation 1,475 m

What's documented

Marfa is a small city in Presidio County, Texas, at the intersection of US 90 and US 67 in the high desert of the Trans-Pecos region. Founded as a railroad water stop in the 1880s. Population ~1,800. The "Marfa lights," recurring luminous phenomena reported from a viewing area east of town since the late 19th century, are an established item of West Texas folklore; their physical mechanism has not been definitively determined by mainstream investigation.

Public-record imagery

Downtown Marfa, Texas.
Downtown Marfa, Texas.Wikipedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · Mathieu Lebreton · 2012
The official Marfa Lights Viewing Area on US-67 — a Texas DOT-built platform built specifically so that travelers could observe the unexplained ground lights.
The official Marfa Lights Viewing Area on US-67 — a Texas DOT-built platform built specifically so that travelers could observe the unexplained ground lights.Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · Allison Meier from Brooklyn, United States · 2021
The viewing platform at dusk. The lights typically appear after sunset, hovering at ground level somewhere in the Chinati Mountains to the southwest.
The viewing platform at dusk. The lights typically appear after sunset, hovering at ground level somewhere in the Chinati Mountains to the southwest.Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 · Jon Hanson from Vienna, VA, USA · 2009
Panorama of Marfa, Texas — population 1,700, with a courthouse, three art foundations, and the most-witnessed unexplained-light phenomenon in North America.
Panorama of Marfa, Texas — population 1,700, with a courthouse, three art foundations, and the most-witnessed unexplained-light phenomenon in North America.Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Daniel Schwen · 2004