Unlocking the Atmospheric Secrets of the Marfa Mystery Lights

Ed Darack, 2008. Weatherwise 61(3), 36–43.

A popular-science magazine article by a Weatherwise corresponding editor. As summarised by Borraz and Ballester Olmos, it identifies headlights on US 67 as the source of the lights and argues that simple refraction and a variety of mirages explain their shimmering, blooming, jumping and splitting, which the author observed himself.

Marfa lightsSecondary sourceArticledoi: 10.3200/WEWI.61.3.36-43Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

Weatherwise 61(3), 36–43: argues that refraction and mirages make distant US 67 headlights shimmer, jump and split; known here through its DOI record and the summary in Borraz and Ballester Olmos (2020).

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Cite it

Darack, E. (2008). Unlocking the Atmospheric Secrets of the Marfa Mystery Lights. Weatherwise 61(3), 36–43. https://doi.org/10.3200/WEWI.61.3.36-43

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Darack, Ed. “Unlocking the Atmospheric Secrets of the Marfa Mystery Lights.” Weatherwise 61(3), 36–43 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3200/WEWI.61.3.36-43.