FIREBALL OVER SW USA

Fireball Seen Over SW United States 19JAN09

The American Meteor Society has received over two dozen reports of a brilliant fireball occurring over southern California. The event occurred at 5:33pm PST on January 18 (01:33 UT Jan 19) and was widely observed over the southern half of California, western Nevada, and western Arizona (including the Phoenix area).There are a wide range of magnitude estimates but we can safely assume this object was at least as bright as the full moon, magnitude -13.Summaries of these reports may be viewed on the AMS website at: http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log2009.html
See event #42.
Robert Lunsford
--posted on Global Meteor Observing Forum

Another Report 19JAN09:
"Wow, the sky is falling these days! Bob Haag just called me and told me that he just saw about ~1hour ago, a large daylight fireball, headed from south to north, toward Phoenix. I spoke to someone else and an explosion in the sky was observed from North of Phoenix, looking south. This was still daylight, so it seems to be rather large. We will see what turns up on this one, bu no ocean to fall into here!"
Michael Farmer, Tucson, Arizona, USA