No one will believe this, but I'll send it in anyway. I was trying to find USA 86 (22251, 92-83A), for which a near-zenith pass was predicted. Suddenly I noticed a very bright flare and clicked my stopwatch, and clicked, and clicked. It was at about 2:56:38-41 UTC 29 July, and its magnitude was possibly as bright as -1. Then it remained at one-power for some time, and then it flared even more brightly, to about -2 I'd estimate. The clicks for this one were at about 2:57:19-21. It dimmed down but remained at gradually fading one-power for another while. Then I clicked when it was at about the same altitude as Kochab (beta UMi); the time was about 2:58:51, so I believe that it was about 40 seconds late. Then nine seconds later it flared for a third time! This one was to about +0 and also lasted about two seconds. Later I checked to see if there were any other obvious candidates for this pass besides USA 86, but I didn't find one. Location: 30.3068N, 97.7267W, 150 m. That was quite a bit better than the previous night's anomalous pass of Cosmos 1220 (12054, 80-89A), which became at least as bright as +1 and was brighter than +2 for much of its pass. But the re-entry of the space shuttle was the best, of course -- by far! Afterwards, I saw video on three of our four major network stations (besides KVUE 24 that Sue mentioned but which I did not see), and I have found that another one, KXAN 36, has the story online: http://www.kxan.com/99/July/27/shuttle_land.html The .ram file on that page is for a story five minutes and 13 seconds in length, and when I gave it a try I got a message that my bandwidth or CPU weren't sufficient to support my viewing the file. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA (The Netscape address is temporary -- e-mail problems with my regular address.) ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.