marfa lights

While in west Texas,  we couldn't pass the opportunity to view the Marfa lights.

Marfa is a small community situated in very remote west Texas. The skies are big and one can see for very long distances. There are very few towns and the skies are dark at night making for great star gazing.

It was a beautiful evening when we drove down the empty highway admiring the vivid sunset and anticipating the Marfa lights. When we arrived, I was surprised to find the attractive and comfortable viewing area created especially for observing the lights.

We sat with a few other people who showed up. No conversation--just the dark and big spaces. A light twinkled on in the distance, then another--they bobbled, flared, changed color , sometimes combined or split, faded out and then others took their place. I really didn't think I would see so many.
Some may be lights on a distant highway, but those that were above the horizon or on mountains were unexplainable.

I don't know what they are--electrical phenomena that occur because of the geology of the land? certainly not extraterrestrials --
but magical they seemed to me in that very far corner of Texas on an autumn evening.