**************************************************************************** UNITED STATES AIR FORCE NEWS RELEASE Dated: Jan 23, 1995 Release #006 FIREBALL SPOTTED JAN. 18 Optical light sensors aboard three Department of Defence satellites recorded the bright flash of a fireball in the atmosphere at 10:17:25 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Jan. 18. The location of the event was estimated to be 51.5N by 115.4E at an altitude of 25km. The peak radiant intensity, measured by a 6000K blackbody model, was 3.25 x 10^10 Watts/steradian, corresponding to a visual magnitude of -19.7. Radiant energy of the event, determined using 6000K blackbody model, was 9 x 10^10 Joules. *********************************-*****************************************