What in the world continues to fly in the skies over Stephenville? Or maybe it's out of this world.

On the heels of multiple UFO sightings in the area on Oct. 23, Tuesday proved just as noteworthy for local residents.

Michael Corn, 27, a former member of the Army assigned to a Patriot Missile unit, said while at his home at 7:15 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 377 Business and U.S. Highway 281, friends called him outside.

He saw what appeared to be a brightly lit object in the sky.

"It looked really close to Stephenville, like it was almost over the courthouse," Corn said.

He said the amber/orange lights pulsed in a right-to-left direction.

"I could see the bottom of the object from the illumination of those lights and the city lights," Corn said. "The bottom (of the object) looked smooth.

"There is no way you could be outside and look up in the sky and not notice this thing. It was just weird."

Corn said he observed the object for about 15 seconds, and then it disappeared without a sound.

"It just vanished," he said.

When questioned about the possibility of the object being an experimental military project, he said: "I know that we couldn't make it. I don't believe it's ours. I got the impression that it has technology that we are not capable of understanding."

Corn said he is familiar with all types of aircraft because of his experience in the Army and his childhood near the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

"It was very unnerving -- you can't come up with a reasonable explanation for what it was," Corn said.

Corn's girlfriend, Ashley Couch, also saw the object.

"It reminded me of a carousel lying over on its side," Couch said.

Another observer at U.S. Highway 281 and North Loop 377 said she could not explain what she saw.

The 20-year-old woman, who asked not to be identified, was traveling north on Loop 377 when her boyfriend called her attention to the vehicle just ahead that seemed to be strangely illuminated.

"He asked me if I saw those weird lights," she said. "But I hadn't noticed anything."

She said they pulled into a gas station at the intersection.

When they exited their vehicle, a man pulled in and asked if they had seen the lights.

"He said he was a pilot, and after my boyfriend had just asked me about lights so that got my attention," the woman said.

Entering back into traffic headed north, they both saw an object.

"It was coming down at a slight angle -- slowly -- it had a bright, big light, a steady light and a blinking light," she said, "for a total of three.

"One was red, and maybe that was the one that was blinking ... I'm not sure."

The couple was so mesmerized they slowed down to almost a stop in the road.

"It pivoted to our left side, maybe 50 yards away and 75 yards up in the air," she said. "It looked almost like it was hovering. The lights were so bright it was hard to see the shape."

The woman said they passed the object, and she looked back to see if it was going to land at the airport, Clark Field. But she was unable to see it.

"We turned around and went back" to the gas station, she said. "There we saw it again, but this time it was on our right moving left across in front of us," she said. "It turned again and looked like it was about to stop, and went back the other way."

"The lights were so bright it was almost hard to look at it. I think it might have been blimp-shaped and about the size of two school buses. It was hard to tell."

Area law enforcement officers said about 10 calls were received reporting a craft or lights.

While some of the callers may have seen flares, one officer said not all of the calls were related to flares dropped in the Brownwood Military Operating Area just before 7 p.m.