# No; all documented lights are ordinary sources

> Still possible: No; every well-documented light so far is a vehicle, ranch light, train, fire, star or planet, and the "genuine" lights are rarer cases…

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Answer · Marfa lights

# No; all documented lights are ordinary sources

No; every well-documented light so far is a vehicle, ranch light, train, fire, star or planet, and the "genuine" lights are rarer cases of the same.

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

## Where it stands

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

## What it predicts

- Every photographed 'genuine' light, checked against maps, times and ephemerides, lies on a road, railway or known light.
- Systematic monitoring with checked clocks and bearings finds no light outside known sources.

## What would rule it out

- A light triangulated by two or more stations, with times and bearings checked, to a place no vehicle or lamp could be.

## Evidence 3 for · 1 against

[A 20-night instrumented watch in 2008 saw no light that met the criteria for a genuine Marfa light.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKP82XNEK2/a-20-night-instrumented-watch-in-2008-saw-no-light-that-met)

Suggestive

FOR

[A globe of light recorded on Mitchell Flat in 1989, which observers were then sure was not man-made, was later…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKP7KDQ643/a-globe-of-light-recorded-on-mitchell-flat-in-1989-which)

Suggestive

FOR

[Every checkable one of Bunnell's best 2003–2004 photographs of "genuine" lights matches vehicles on local roads 8 to 30 km away.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKP761ADG2/every-checkable-one-of-bunnells-best-20032004-photographs-of)

Supported

FOR

[An object photographed by two stations on 3 June 2005 shone for over three hours at about 10 kW of visible light, too…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/evidence/EVD0DCKP8G5NX3B/an-object-photographed-by-two-stations-on-3-june-2005-shone)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Once vehicles, ranch and other artificial lights, fires, stars and mirages are excluded, do any Marfa lights remain unexplained?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/questions/QST0DCKKKFZBKJA/once-vehicles-ranch-and-other-artificial-lights-fires-stars)

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