Yesterday, June 26, I was trying to locate the decaying Molniya rocket, 1986-31D/16686. It was predicted to have a close pass to 1 Cas at 21:55:45s UTC but I didn't see it at the predicted time. However I kept on looking at this position when I saw an object moving at approximately the same direction but at 22:02:19s UTC. If it was the decaying rocket then it would have been 6min34s late. I had a very narrow angle of view because of obscuring trees and house blocks so I could only follow it for 5 to 10s. There is one other candidate for my observation: The UOSAT cover 99021B/25694 which does fit my observation in some way. But isn't that object too small for reaching magnitude +4 ? Observing place was Bruges. SL-6 R/B(2) 1 16686U 86031D 99176.54684539 .18313664 58114-5 25279-3 0 5238 2 16686 61.7416 146.7868 0918534 261.7939 87.8293 14.43948951 85302 Tristan Cools tcools@nic.INbe.net BWGS Member - Belgian Working Group Satellites Observing at: Damse Vaart: 3.2486E/51.2279N Ryckevelde: 3.2867E/51.2054N Brugge: 3.1611E/51.2108N