More Marfa Lights

A cryptid may be responsible for the strange flying lights that have been called “dancing devils” by some residents of southwest Texas. The lights have been called “Marfa Lights” by most people but “CE-III ML” by the scientist James Bunnell, who has studied the phenomena for many years.

Those Mysterious Marfa Lights

Why should earth lights or atmospheric energies behave with intelligence? They should not. Yet the Marfa Lights, the ones labeled “CE-III” by the scientist James Bunnell, act like intelligent flying predators that hunt bats or other prey in this part of southwest Texas …

In fact, another scientist, Edson Hendricks of California, once saw a Marfa Light fly into a nearby bush and thrash about “like an animal” (although he has not yet, perhaps, come over into the opinion-camp of “bioluminescent flying predators”). Other eyewitnesses (of flying lights that would be labeled “CE-III” by Bunnell) report behavior suggesting intelligent direction.

That brings up Min Min lights, which have been studied by Fred Silcock for years. In Australia, some eyewitness report the flying glow to be from an owl, in particular the Great Owl, or what Americans call “Barn Owl.” The problem with connecting those lights with CE-III Marfa Lights is simple: CE-III lights fly with more intelligence than would come from a group of barn owls; in addition, the light is often too bright for Min Mins and sometimes flies too fast. Barn owls are not the answer.

Marfa Lights and Min Mins

The dance patterns of Marfa Lights resemble no flock of hunting barn owls. No, our old friend Tyto Alba cannot compete here and it dare not try. But it has illuminated part of the answer to the puzzle. The predators of Southern Texas show greater intelligence than most birds and some of them may be larger than any owl. This cryptid may be related to the ropen of Papua New Guinea (another nocturnal glowing flyer).

Something else votes for “bioluminescent flying predators” in southwest Texas. Over the past twelve months, more and more ideas have come up, ideas in harmony with an intelligent biological explanation for Marfa Lights. If the CE-III mystery lights were caused by non-living energies, evidence to the contrary would not accumulate. We need to be open to any eyewitnesses who have seen more, to those who may come forward with reports of apparent living pterosaurs in this part of Texas. Why not believe them, should they choose to come forward? We have many eyewitnesses of living pterosaurs that have flown over other areas of Texas and over New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Georgia, and Florida. Why not Marfa, Texas?

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