There were some unconfirmed reports of glowing wreckage moving across the sky in western Canada, but Nasa said it had yet to receive credible evidence that this was so, less still that any debris items had been found.

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Just one, uncannily red, glowing against the background of an unusually clear sky on this day when none of the factories were running.

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It was still dark outside when I arrived but the sky was lit up by an incredibly large moon glowing over the ballpark -- a baseball cathedral transformed into a church thanks to a 50-by-50-foot altar in centerfield.

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While the glowing hall is pretty, it's hard to beat the lights in the night sky.

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