Jeff Hunt, in response to David Chapman's question: >Yes, it would appear that you observed the NOSS 6 group that travelled >NW to ESE on the date and time you mentioned. My prediction program showed >the following objects passed near Alpha Aries at the times mentioned. Just to make matters more confusing, the NOSS 2-3 group was in the same general direction at the same time, and passed much closer to Aries than NOSS 6. The NOSS 2-x satellites are much larger and brighter than first generation NOSS, such as the NOSS 6 group. The former frequently reach naked-eye visibility; the latter only rarely. So I conclude that the most probable identification was NOSS 2-3. The NOSS 2-3 plane is only 8.5 deg east of the NOSS 6 plane, and they have nearly the same mean motion, so both groups will be passing at the same time, on parallel tracks, for some time. Ted Molczan