By Scott Corrales
Inexplicata7-19-11
Joaquin V. Gonzalez lost power at two o'clock in the morning on Thursday, November 26, 2009. No, not a disgruntled utility customer, shaking a puny fist at the uncaring energy provider, but an entire population center of twenty thousand souls. Some of these souls were in the town square, trying to beat the heat by eating ice cream outdoors despite the lateness of the hour, sitting at the cafe tables and chairs of establishments catering to this early morning clientele, driven from sweltering houses into the open air. The southern hemisphere's summer had been warmer than most, and the good people of Joaquin V. Gonzalez were about to have an added surprise with their gelattos.
An elongated, glowing unidentified flying saucer, described as having "intermittent lights like flashers" and an unblinking red light crossed the skies over the community in Northern Argentina, knocking out power as it went past.
Luis Burgos, director of the Fundaci'on Argentina de Ovnilog'ia (FAO) would later explain that the lights went out in Joaquin V. Gonz'alez exactly when the unknown object flew overhead. Later on, as the object went over the El Tunal power station, it melted one of the plant's turbine generators, a fact that officials from the EDESA electric company were unable to explain to the media or the authorities. Stories of burned out light posts also abounded. Witnesses to the event, said Burgos, complained of a "sensation of being anesthetized" for a short period of time as the object flew past, and that "the silence was overwhelming" during the sighting. To make matters worse, the intruder also tampered with the phone lines, isolating the town from the rest of the country for twelve hours.
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