How could there have been a night without darkness?

Some readers have wondered how such a marvelous event could have occurred.  We do not know how the event described by Book of Mormon prophets was brought about, but, as remarkable as it may seem, events of a similar nature have been documented. The Aztec Florentine Codex reports that ten years before the arrival of the Spaniards a light was seen in the heavens at midnight for a year which made it seem “as if day had dawned, day had broken. On June 30, 1908, seventy-eight years after the Book of Mormon was published, a huge explosion in Russia, known to scholars simply as the “Tunguska event,” caused the night sky to glow in a way very similar to what the Book of Mormon describes. Throughout a territory of about 12 million km2, there was no night separating June 30 and July 1. In Germany it was as light as daytime at 1:15 AM. The anomalies associated with the Tunguska event in 1908, with nightglows in the days before, with total day-like brightness the night after, and also with continuing nightglows and even daytime effects in the days that followed correspond well with the Book of Mormon account.