Ted Molczan is a Canadian amateur satellite tracker. In this archive he turns up years after the fact, offering rocket re-entries as explanations for famous lights in the sky. April 2012. He proposed that the Yukon Mothership seen at Fox Lake in 1996 was the second stage of the rocket that launched Cosmos 2335. Witnesses and researchers disputed that idea. On 5 October 2012 he posted his findings on the 1976 Moroccan sightings to the SeeSat-L mailing list. He matched them to object 1976-074C, a Soviet motor assembly of about 700 kg. He is also credited with identifying object 1990-094C in the French wave of 5 November 1990.
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Pro earlyCompiler of the satellite re-entry catalogue linking the sighting to CORONA FTV-1129
Canadian amateur satellite tracker who matched the sightings to a satellite re-entry
Pro earlyCompiler of the satobs.org table of visually observed satellite re-entries
Satellite analyst who identified object 1990-094C
Satellite observer who proposed the Cosmos 2335 rocket-stage re-entry explanation in 2012