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MYS0DCKD12CSV0A·The Marfa lights

Artifacts 12

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

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Photograph: The Marfa lights
Jon Hanson · CC BY 2.0
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Visitors watching from the viewing platform, May 2009: photograph
Jon Hanson · CC BY 2.0
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A light on the horizon at dusk over Mitchell Flat: photograph
TexasExplorer98 · CC BY 2.0
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The Marfa Lights Viewing Center at night: photograph
nan palmero · CC BY 2.0
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The Marfa Lights Viewing Area by day, November 2021: photograph
Allison Meier · CC BY 2.0
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Texas Historical Commission marker "Marfa Lights" (1988): photograph
QuesterMark · CC BY-SA 2.0
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James Crocker's time exposure of a light on Mitchell Flat, September 1986: photograph
James Crocker · © James Crocker; not freely licensed
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Bunnell's photographs of "genuine" Marfa lights, 2003–2004: reproductions in FOTOCAT Report #8
James Bunnell · © James Bunnell; not freely licensed
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Monitoring-station recordings of the bright object, 3 June 2005: frames in the published paper
James Bunnell's stations 1 and 2 · Not freely licensed (journal article)