Georgie, the light that zoomed off to the left at a “very high speed,” was that speed faster than any airplane could travel? Or could it have been at about the speed of a prop plane or a military jet?

When I was in Junior High School, some kid took me to a cemetery at night to see the red flashing headstone. It scared the heck out of me at first, until I realized its polished surface was reflecting the flashing red Firestone tire store sign from about a mile away. The flashing headstone could be seen flashing from only one particular position in the cemetery.

I’ve been suspicious for some years that the Marfa lights are natural car lights, lights at ranches, fire lights, etc., out in the desert, with the town of Marfa promoting them as being “mysterious” so they can get more people to visit and stay over in Marfa. One of Roswell, New Mexico’s, biggest businesses now is tourism, and there is another town in New Mexico that has been trying to promote their own “UFO crash site” for several years, trying to bring tourists into town.

People who pass through the Western deserts and who aren’t familiar with them, do not realize that people live out in the desert and the desert is criss-crossed with rural dirt roads, and also some rail lines run through the desert. Plus, there are some private ranchers’ airstrips in the desert from which planes can take off and land during the night. Some ranchers have automatic landing strip lights they can turn on with a radio signal and turn off after they land.

Let’s see if we can link to a topo map. The center of this map should be a couple of miles South of the Highway 90-67 viewing position. If you can zoom out, you can see a rail line in the desert and many desert roads. If this link works ok. This map is a zoom in, a few miles South of the highway viewing position, and it shows what looks like some kind of landing strips:

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=13...atum=nad83&u=7

Here is a close view, several miles South of the viewing position, that shows the University of Texas Radio Astronomy observatory and several radio tower installations.

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=...83&layer=DRG25

The next view South of that one shows more radio towers. To go to the next view South, click on the green arrow at the bottom of the map.

The next view South shows “Landing Strips”, about in the center of the map:

http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=...83&layer=DRG25