{"id":9571,"date":"2019-01-17T21:56:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2019-01-27T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T05:00:17","slug":"alien-ice-disk-in-presumpscot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/17\/alien-ice-disk-in-presumpscot\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Ice-disk In Presumpscot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2019\/01\/14\/alien-looking-disk-of-ice-on-presumpscot-river-has-westbrook-buzzing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from the Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Spinning in the Presumpscot, this alien-looking ice disk has Westbrook all abuzz<\/h1>\n<p>The circular sheet appears to be rotating and growing, drawing comparisons to a crop circle, a Lazy Susan and a duck-go-round.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzUhv0YGCgo\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">BY <\/span><a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Dennis Hoey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/author\/dennis-hoey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">DENNIS HOEY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A disk of ice roughly 100 yards across that formed on the Presumpscot River and was slowly rotating and gaining size Monday had Westbrook buzzing almost as much as when city police spotted a giant snake eating a beaver in roughly the same location in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever came of those mysterious snake sightings \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2016\/06\/29\/large-snake-spotted-eating-beaver-on-banks-of-river-in-westbrook\/?rel=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the reptile was dubbed \u201cWessie\u201d by locals<\/a> \u2013 but the sight of an alien-looking circle of ice stuck in the river had some people wondering about that section of the river\u2019s knack for producing weird events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt kind of looks like a crop circle,\u201d said Doug Bertlesman, a web developer at Ethos Marketing. His company is at 17 Ash St. The four-story building with a roof deck overlooks the river where the ice disk formed.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2019\/01\/14\/alien-looking-disk-of-ice-on-presumpscot-river-has-westbrook-buzzing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at the Press Herald<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Portland Press Herald Spinning in the Presumpscot, this alien-looking ice disk has Westbrook all abuzz The circular sheet appears to be rotating and growing, drawing comparisons to a crop circle, a Lazy Susan and a duck-go-round. \ufeff BY DENNIS HOEY A disk of ice roughly 100 yards across that formed on the Presumpscot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}