Mystery Lights of Southwest Texas Marfa, Texas Marfa Lights (w5www site) Marfa, Texas (Things to do) Brief history of mystery lights “The Ghost lights of Marfa still  shine as bright as ever, and are still as mysterious as they were when  they were first seen by early  settlers who drove their herds into  the Marfa area in 1883.”  Chamber of Commerce Site  “[Feel free.] View this mysterious  phenomenon any time after sunset  at the Marfa Lights Viewing Area,  nine miles east of Marfa on  Highway 90. The Marfa Mystery  Lights are viewable year round.”  Flying Predators in Texas? Bioluminescent Flying Ropens?  What is guaranteed to shock most  Americans who hear about Marfa,  Texas? It’s not stories of the ghost lights or scientific speculations on  earth lights. A nonfiction book on  living pterosaurs in America---that  is shocking, including the chapter  on Marfa Lights.  The second edition of Whitcomb’s book Live Pterosaurs in America  says nothing about the biologist  Evelyn Cheesman. But Cheesman  said much about the mystery lights she observed in the southwest  Pacific; in her book she describes  the strange lights, convinced they  were not of any human origin.  But how do live pterosaurs and  strange lights in the southwest  Pacific relate to the Marfa Lights  in southwest Texas? They all fly  with intelligence.  Intelligent Ghost Lights? Light “Splitting” and Dancing  Some of the old timers, ranchers  or others, around Marfa might talk  of “ghost lights” or those “dancing devils.” They’re not talking about  car headlights (although the night  mirages of headlights can appear  strange). They’re talking about the  apparent intelligence behind some  of the flying-light behavior, and it  has had some scientists perplexed. Late in 2010, a cryptozoologist  author from California, Jonathan  Whitcomb, announced a strange  possibility for an explanation: The  light splitting, separation, and re-  joining may be from a small group  of flying predators, nocturnal and  bioluminescent, that hunt the Big  Brown Bat (common in this part of  Texas). The second edition of his  nonfiction book, Live Pterosaurs  in America, has one chapter on the Marfa Lights.  Cryptozoology Book In daylight, the country around Marfa, Texas, looks like a typical semi-arid countryside. But wait until night. Whitcomb’s Second Edition  Eyewitness sightings of living  pterosaurs in the United States  of America---that sums up this  nonfiction cryptozoology book. Some of the pterosaur sightings  are in Texas. Consider this one,  quoted here only in part: “I received an eyewitness  report, in 2006, about an  incident in about 1986, in the  northwest area of San Antonio,  Texas. I’ll call her ‘DF.’ . . .  ‘One evening, I was outside my  apartment . . . We noticed  something flying around across  the road . . . the size was much  too large to be any bat I have  ever seen . . . 6-10 feet across.’”