In a message dated 8/17/99 3:14:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dan.deak@sympatico.ca writes: << It looked like a horn of plenty roughly parallel to the horizon with its right tip curved to reach the rocket which was at mag 4 or 5. It was 1 degree in size at first and grew rapidly to 5 degrees while getting more diffuse and following the rocket. >> Exactly what I observed from here in Raleigh, NC (35.8853N 78.5253W) moving north from Vega, at around 50o elevation in the NW. Spectacular! Easily the coolest satellite observation of my "career" yet - even next to the Okean-O r !!! I'm glad I got up at 2:30AM to see it. Horn of plenty was exactly what I thought of when I saw it, and it really appeared that propellant was spraying out of the rocket - as in, I could see movement in the cloud itself - naked eye it was quite apparent and quickly became large and (more) diffuse, barely detectable. I did not observe the 4 globalstar satellites, although I panned the sky for them, perhaps in the wrong direction (ahead of the rocket). Thanks for all the posted information! When's the next such event? :) Quinn McCleery, all smiles Raleigh, NC 35.8853N 78.5253W