# Artifacts: The Marfa lights

> The 12 artifacts of The Marfa lights: photos, scans, transcriptions and documents, each with its own catalog key.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/artifacts  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

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**MYS** 0DCKD12CSV0A·[The Marfa lights](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights)

# Artifacts 12

Every copy this mystery rests on, each with its own key and its distance from the original.

Photo1 step from object

[Photograph: The Marfa lights](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCKK855Z309/photograph-the-marfa-lights)

Jon Hanson · CC BY 2.0

Photo1 step from object

[Visitors watching from the viewing platform, May 2009: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZ9ZBFACY/visitors-watching-from-the-viewing-platform-may-2009)

Jon Hanson · CC BY 2.0

Photo1 step from object

[A light on the horizon at dusk over Mitchell Flat: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZAANEHP0/a-light-on-the-horizon-at-dusk-over-mitchell-flat-photograph)

TexasExplorer98 · CC BY 2.0

Photo1 step from object

[The Marfa Lights Viewing Center at night: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZAY3W8X4/the-marfa-lights-viewing-center-at-night-photograph)

nan palmero · CC BY 2.0

Photo1 step from object

[The Marfa Lights Viewing Area by day, November 2021: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZBD0RFRS/the-marfa-lights-viewing-area-by-day-november-2021)

Allison Meier · CC BY 2.0

Photo1 step from object

[Texas Historical Commission marker "Marfa Lights" (1988): photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZBR1D4S7/texas-historical-commission-marker-marfa-lights-1988)

QuesterMark · CC BY-SA 2.0

Scan2 steps from object

[Coronet's picture of the "Texas ghost light", July 1957: scan of page 57](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZC765FSA/coronets-picture-of-the-texas-ghost-light-july-1957-scan-of)

Internet Archive (scan of Coronet 42(3)) · Not freely licensed (copyright renewal not checked)

Photo1 step from object

[James Crocker's time exposure of a light on Mitchell Flat, September 1986: photograph](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZCK7YSZE/james-crockers-time-exposure-of-a-light-on-mitchell-flat)

James Crocker · © James Crocker; not freely licensed

Video1 step from object

[Unsolved Mysteries segment on the Marfa lights, October 1989: broadcast](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZCWMP0WJ/unsolved-mysteries-segment-on-the-marfa-lights-october-1989)

Broadcast footage; not freely licensed

Photo2 steps from object

[Bunnell's photographs of "genuine" Marfa lights, 2003–2004: reproductions in FOTOCAT Report #8](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZDBXH61R/bunnells-photographs-of-genuine-marfa-lights-20032004)

James Bunnell · © James Bunnell; not freely licensed

Photo2 steps from object

[Monitoring-station recordings of the bright object, 3 June 2005: frames in the published paper](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZDWQRRYD/monitoring-station-recordings-of-the-bright-object-3-june)

James Bunnell's stations 1 and 2 · Not freely licensed (journal article)

Document2 steps from object

[Texas State video and spectra from the viewing area, 2008: figures in the published paper](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marfa-lights/copies/CPY0DCNZRZ5XRK5/texas-state-video-and-spectra-from-the-viewing-area-2008)

Karl D. Stephan, Sagar Ghimire, William A. Stapleton and James Bunnell · Not freely licensed (journal article)