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.
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.