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Local Legends in Marfa, Texas

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The Marfa Lights

Marfa, TX

The Marfa Lights have glowed, split and danced over the West Texas desert since ranch-hand reports of 1883 — America's most famous mystery lights, watched nightly by crowds from an official highway viewing centre east of town, studied by scientists, and never conclusively explained.

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