went looking for the mysterious lights in the sky....The famous Marfa Lights of West Texas!

Since we arrived here in Alpine Texas, everyone here says that we need to check out the lights of Marfa. Last night at 8:00pm we headed to the Marfa lights viewing area about 20+miles away from our RV park with our friends Dale and Cheryl Curtis. We put a blanket on the table and we watched the setting sun and we stayed until it was totally dark. We called it quits at 9:40pm and headed back to our RV park. The sky and the stars were awesome. All the stars were easy to see.

From the Website http://www.livescience.com/37579-what-are-marfa-lights-texas.html

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The Marfa Lights, mysterious glowing orbs that appear in the desert outside the West Texas town of Marfa, have mystified people for generations.

According to eyewitnesses, the Marfa Lights appear to be roughly the size of basketballs and are varyingly described as white, blue, yellow, red or other colors.

Reportedly, the Marfa Lights hover, merge, twinkle, split into two, flicker, float up into the air or dart quickly across Mitchell Flat (the area east of Marfa where they're most commonly reported). [The 9 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]

There seems to be no way to predict when the lights will appear; they're seen in various weather conditions, but only a dozen or so nights a year. And nobody knows for sure what they are — or if they really even exist at all.

The Native Americans of the area thought the Marfa Lights were fallen stars, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The first mention of the lights comes from 1883, when cowhand Robert Reed Ellison claimed to have seen flickering lights one evening while driving a herd of cattle near Mitchell Flat. He assumed the lights were from Apache campfires.

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More information can be found at : http://www.visitmarfa.com/lights.php#.VQrOAY54oUw

Did we see them? Maybe yes and maybe no. We did see lots of lights that we attributed to headlights on a mountain across the flat land area. We did not see anything floating or distorting lights but we had fun trying to see what all the hoopla was about.