  Explosive transient events occur throughout the solar atmosphere. The
differing manifestations range from coronal mass ejections to Ellerman bombs.
The former may have negligible signatures in the lower atmosphere, and the
latter may have negligible nonthermal emissions such as hard X-radiation. A
solar flare generally involves a broad range of emission signatures. Using a
suite of four space-borne telescopes, we report a solar event that combines
aspects of simple UV bursts and hard X-ray emitting flares at the same time.
The event is a compact C-class flare in active region AR11861,
SOL2013-10-12T00:30. By fitting a combined isothermal and nonthermal model to
the hard X-ray spectrum, we inferred plasma temperatures in excess of 15\,MK
and a nonthermal power of about $3\times10^{27}$\,erg\,s$^{-1}$ in this event.
Despite these high temperatures and evidence for nonthermal particles, the
flare was mostly confined to the chromosphere. However, the event lacked clear
signatures of UV spectral lines, such as the Fe\,{\sc xii} 1349\,\AA\ and
Fe\,{\sc xxi} 1354\,\AA\ emission lines, which are characteristic of emission
from hotter plasma with a temperature over 1\,MK. Moreover, the event exhibited
very limited signatures in the extreme-UV wavelengths. Our study indicates that
a UV burst -- hard X-ray flare hybrid phenomenon exists in the low solar
atmosphere. Plasma that heats to high temperatures coupled with particle
acceleration by magnetic energy that is released directly in the lower
atmosphere sheds light on the nature of active region core heating and on
inferences of flare signatures.
