# Headlights on US 67, distorted by the air

> Still possible: Headlights of vehicles on US 67 between Marfa and Presidio, seen from 30 km or more and made to flicker, rise and split by the air.

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# Headlights on US 67, distorted by the air

Headlights of vehicles on US 67 between Marfa and Presidio, seen from 30 km or more and made to flicker, rise and split by the air.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Four pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The number of lights falls through the night with traffic on US 67.
- A vehicle stopped on US 67 and flashing its headlights on cue appears from the viewing area as a Marfa light in the same place.
- Spectra of the lights are those of vehicle headlamps.
- The lights lie on lines of sight to US 67 and move along them.

## What would rule it out

- A light in the direction of US 67 recorded while the road was closed and empty.
- A spectrum or measured distance that no vehicle lamp on the road can give.

## Evidence 4 for · 2 against

[A chase car parked on US 67 flashing its headlights appeared from the viewing area as a Marfa light, in the same place…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKNRJM7PRF/a-chase-car-parked-on-us-67-flashing-its-headlights-appeared)

Supported

FOR

[In 20 nights of telescope, video and spectrometer watching in 2008, the candidate lights were identified as headlamps…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKNSH54HZW/in-20-nights-of-telescope-video-and-spectrometer-watching-in)

Supported

FOR

[The lights the 2004 group filmed all lay on the line of sight to a radio tower east of US 67, moved along one path…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKNS3TZZP6/the-lights-the-2004-group-filmed-all-lay-on-the-line-of)

Suggestive

FOR

[Time exposures of traffic on US 67 reproduce the tracks of the "classic" lights seen towards the Chinati Mountains.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKNSXRB7JY/time-exposures-of-traffic-on-us-67-reproduce-the-tracks-of)

Supported

FOR

[Coronet wrote in 1957 that settlers had reported the light more than 70 years earlier, when the brightest light in the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKNT8AT0FE/coronet-wrote-in-1957-that-settlers-had-reported-the-light)

Speculative

AGAINST

[In August 1983 Gary Cartwright watched lights from US 90 that he could not match to the known ranch houses, roads…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKNTY9J2H0/in-august-1983-gary-cartwright-watched-lights-from-us-90)

Speculative

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What are the lights seen on most nights from the viewing area east of Marfa?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/questions/QST0DCKKFJFECKD/what-are-the-lights-seen-on-most-nights-from-the-viewing)

Open4 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Headlights on US 67, distorted by the air [Answer ANS0DCKM724BXY0]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DCKM724BXY0
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