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Texas Primer: The Marfa Lights
Gary Cartwright, 1984. Texas Monthly, November 1984.
A short magazine essay on the lights' folklore and the explanations offered by 1984. It reports that the Sul Ross State physicist Donald Witt traced one source to a ranch and another to US 67, that Witt later saw two lights he could not explain, and describes the author's own sighting from US 90 in August 1983.
What it's used for here
Texas Monthly, November 1984: the author's own sighting from US 90 in August 1983 and an account of Donald Witt's Sul Ross State investigation of the early 1970s.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Cartwright, G. (1984). Texas Primer: The Marfa Lights. Texas Monthly, November 1984. https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texas-primer-the-marfa-lights/
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Cartwright, Gary. “Texas Primer: The Marfa Lights.” Texas Monthly, November 1984 (1984).