Dear SeeSat-L folks, This my first posting, and I hope that I am doing it correctly. My name is Tom Troszak and I have been watching satellites off and on since about 1968 (at age 4). Recently I have gotten my family to watch with me and we have been observing Iridium flares and all sorts of interesting phenomena and including the SL-16 rocket(very cool!), space station Mir, etc. I even managed to get two teenage boys and my wife to get up at 5:30 AM to see an Iridium flare. On the evening of August 4, 1999 while we were waiting for the "new" SL-16 rocket to appear, we observed a satellite with a brightness I would estimate at approx. magnitude 1.5 - 2.0 but in at least two parts, a brighter part followed closely by a slightly dimmer part. Both parts appeared reddish, instead of the usual silvery speck. My children thought they saw other fainter objects between the two. The object that best fits the time, etc. observed here in Asheville, NC, USA is Cosmos 1782. Our location (for prediction purposes) is: 35.601 N, 82.554 W. The object was observed travelling from SSW to NNW passing through about 45deg.W at approx 22:23:00 Eastern Time, Aug 4, 1999. the prediction for Cosmos1782 (from GSOC) was for 75degW. at roughly the same time. Sorry to be so vague, I don't have the notes with me. This message is kind of old now, but first I wrote to GSOC and got back a form letter(understandable) which recommended this group. A look at the description of this object predicts a maximum mag. of 3.3. Normally from our very light polluted city viewing location that would be very dim to us. If this object was observed in the process of re-entering the atmosphere or something, I imagine that one of you would know already. Perhaps we saw unrelated debris, or perhaps we are just seeing things... We looked for Cosmos 1782 again two nights later, and were not able to see it at the predicted time, but we did see two very horizonal bright orange "shooting stars" travelling in the exact direction the satellite should have been going at exactly the time that it should have "peaked" in slightly lower than the place it should have appeared. Another weird coincidence, I imagine. We were just curious if anyone knew what we saw on Aug 4? If anyone has any interest in this, I can search my notes for a more exact time.I will try hard to take better notes about time, etc. now that I know that there is someone actually interested in sat. observation. Thanks! Tom Troszak, Asheville, NC USA 35.601N, 82.554W