Belated report of a very bright (-2 to -3), lengthy (15-25 seconds) flare from NOAA 15 (25338, 98-30A), on 27 Dec 1998 UTC (Saturday p.m. 26 Dec local). I was in San Antonio, Texas (29.4N, 98.66W, 180m). Predicted culmination was 1:40:03; the flare began nearly two minutes later, as NOAA 15 was descending far to the north. I noted (rough) flare times as 1:41:55 to 1:42:15. Twice recently, with hand-held 10x50 binoculars, I've been able to find ETS 6 (23230, 94-56A) flashing, first from San Antonio on the same night as the above NOAA 15, and again last Monday night (5 Jan 1999 UTC) from BCRC, Austin. The range was more than 8000 km (5000 miles). Its slow motion and frequent flashing (to about mag. +6?) helped me have a fair chance to find it. Just to add to the Cosmos 2228 story, Mike McCants reported -1 and -2 flashes last March: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Mar-1998/0215.html and I've also more than once seen it do pairs of very bright flashes near the culmination of passes. Now, has anyone in the southern hemisphere seen anything recently from SPOT 3 (22823, 93-61A)? A few months ago on most passes over here it did great flashes, some of them being some of the brightest I've seen -- rivals of good Iridium flares in magnitude. The flashes were seen as it moved far to the north. I've seen two different sizes listed for its solar panel(s): 15.6 meters and 8 meters; either is large enough to make for very bright flashes. Tuesday evening I was able to show two other people two fairly good Iridium flares in less than 3 minutes. First was listed by Iridflar as Iridium "11 M", which I believe is one of the latest ones, 25577/98-74A. It was perhaps -1, brighter than predicted, with solar elev. of about -6.5. Then just over 2 minutes later came a -2 flare of Iridium 26, which I think is 24903/97-43A. Wednesday evening had a good one-power pass of Galileo IUS (20299, 89-84C) through Cassiopeia, with it being of about the same magnitude as the constellation's brightest stars. Then I went to a meeting. (I still can't figure out why astronomers hold meetings at night....) Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA