**************************************************************************** UNITED STATES AIR FORCE NEWS RELEASE Dated: March 10, 1995 Release #009 Note: This release supersedes release #008 dated March 9. The previous release contained incorrect information. Please disregard the previous release. OPTICAL LIGHT SENSORS RECORD TWO FIREBALLS Optical light sensors aboard two DOD satellites recorded the bright flash of two seperate fireballs in the atmosphere at 03:02:04 and 13:05:47 Greenwich Mean Time on February 16 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Using a 6000K blackbody model for the flashes, peak radiant intensities measured by the satellites were 1.5 X 10^10 and 1.0 X 10^10 W/steradian respectively. These correspond to visual magnitudes of -19.1 and -18.4 respectively. Radiant energies of the events using the same models were 1.75 X 10^10 and 6.0 X 10^10 Joules respectively. *********************************-*****************************************