It could be possible that there was either some sort of surge in the power lines, or at the other extreme, a momentary brown or black-out. Did the clocks on ANYTHING else in the house go to "flashing 12:00"?

Then again, it could have been some intergallactic alien kind of thing.

...but what do I know, I'm ONLY a dog.

ARF, ARF, says Iggy.