The article below was published in the daily newspaper La Provence, France, on December 24, 2004.
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A handful of Gardannais residents, who wished to remain unidentified, fell victim of a strange phenomenon. On Wednesday evening, several households in the city experienced a power outage from 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM. "We had an underground fault where an accessory failed," explained EDF [National power co.]. "Our teams immediately went to the site, but the outage was difficult to locate. Everything was back to normal around 9:30 PM."
During this time, some users noticed that their watches had malfunctioned, and the next morning, they reportedly found their car's odometer reset to zero. An inexplicable phenomenon. Perhaps the "UFO" that fell in the Étoile massif a few days ago is not unrelated to this (Read La Provence from December 11)).