得州沙漠里每晚有光球在飘，试了一百年没说清

In west Texas, there is a small town called Marfa. By the roadside outside town, there is a viewing platform. At night, many people drive there just to see the lights on the horizon.

Those lights—white, yellow, red—come in clusters, float, separate; sometimes several clusters move together, sometimes they roll across the ground. The earliest record dates to 1883, when a cowherd driving cattle past saw a fire in the distance and thought it was an Indian campfire. He went over the next day and found nothing.

For over a hundred years, students, reporters, and paranormal enthusiasts have all come to see them. Some say it's swamp gas, some say ghosts, some say UFOs.

In 2008, a university team set up instruments at the viewing platform, aimed at that spot, and recorded for over a year. Their conclusion: most of the lights are car headlights from a highway dozens of kilometers away, refracted by the terrain, making them look as if they're floating in the desert.

But they themselves admit that a few lights simply don't match up with cars. Some appear when there isn't a single car on that road; some appear in directions far from the highway.

Now the viewing platform has signs and a parking lot. Every late summer, the town holds a "Festival of the Lights," selling T-shirts and drinks; some visitors are believers, others are just there for the spectacle.

When night falls, everyone turns their faces toward the same direction and waits. On some nights, there's nothing at all, and everyone goes home.

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