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Marfa Lights of Texas

What about those Marfa Lights? They’ve been shoved aside as misidentified car headlights, atmospheric energies, dancing devils, and “ghost lights.” But the mysterious flying lights around Marfa, Texas, now have a new interpretation: bioluminescent flying predators, perhaps even modern pterosaurs. It comes down to temperatures at night.

The really strange mystery lights, not the misidentified car headlights but the flying lights that appear to involve countless mini-explosions—those Marfa Lights prefer warmer nights or at least milder temperatures than average for this high desert area of southwest Texas. This has been suggested as evidence that the lights are the bioluminescent glow of nocturnal flying predators.

Marfa Lights Miracle

A new explanation for the mysterious flying Marfa Lights comes from a strange source: a cryptozoologist in California, who writes nonfiction books about modern living pterosaurs. Jonathan Whitcomb, of Long Beach, CA, wrote a press release about Marfa Lights, suggesting they might be related to the ropen lights of Papua New Guinea, what some cryptozoologists believe are from long-tailed bioluminescent pterosaurs.