{"id":345,"date":"2011-04-25T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-04-25T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:35:17","slug":"six-months-later-scientists-still-baffled-by-strange-rock-formations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Six Months Later, Scientists Still Baffled by Strange Rock Formations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/a>\nResident Jay Chickerneo and his wife Amy take morning walks down the scenic Westerly Creek Trail with their young child Madison and dog Jasper. Aside from occasionally encountering an off-leash dog, things are pretty uneventful. However, on September 26th this year, they noticed something very peculiar. \u201cWe noticed the strangest rock formation,\u201d said Jay. \u201cIt seemed like something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind<\/em>.\u201d\nWhat the Chickerneos noticed was a random smattering of disc shaped rocks, not indigenous to Stapleton. \u201cThey were all over the place,\u201d said Amy. \u201cAt first we thought we were getting punked, and at any minute Ashton Kutcher was going to pop out from behind one of these ridiculous things,\u201d Amy said.\u00a0 \u201cIt never happened, and we got really freaked out and ran home.\u201d\nOnce home, they called the police who temporarily blocked off the area. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know how to handle it,\u201d said sergeant McClelland. \u201cSo we called the scientist nerds at CU to come take a look.\u201d\u00a0 Scientist Jodi Graham has had a team studying the rocks and its formation the last six months. \u201cWe have not made a lot of progress to this point,\u201d said Jodi. \u201cIt is possible that Aliens are using it to mark the area to colonize, as it is a great place to raise a family.\u201d\nThat is only one of several theories however, which range from time travel all the way to poor decision-making on the part of a landscape architect.\u00a0 Residents are hoping answers come sooner than later. \u201cWe will continue to walk down there,\u201d said Jay, \u201cbut we will have an eye out for Aliens.\u201d]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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