THINK ABOUTIT UNDERGROUND SIGHTING REPORT
Date: 1770
Sighting Time:
Day/Night: Day
Location: Staffordshire, England
Urban or Rural: -Rural
Entity Type: Humanoid
Entity Description: man on a throne like chair, dressed in a hooded robe.
Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) Close observation with animate beings associated with the object.
Duration: Unknown
No. of Object(s): Unknown
Size of Object(s): Unknown
Distance to Object(s): Unknown
Shape of Object(s): Unknown
Color of Object(s): Unknown
Number of Witnesses: 1
Source: Hargrave Jennings, The Rosicrucian’s—Their Rites and Mysteries
Summary/Description: A laborer moved a large flat stone he had encountered in a field while digging a trench, beneath which he discovered a descending stone staircase which he followed deep into the earth, finding that the staircase switch-backed now and then until he emerged into a large underground chamber several hundred feet below that was filled with strange objects and large machines and illuminated by a strange ever-luminous sphere which revealed a man on a throne like chair, dressed in a hooded robe.
The man in the chair saw the intruder and stood up with a baton like object in his hand as he went over to the luminous sphere and smashed it, plunging the cavern into darkness, as the laborer stumbled back up the surface in surprise and terror.
Investigative Analysis
The 1770 Staffordshire account, famously detailed in Hargrave Jennings’ The Rosicrucians, serves as a quintessential example of High Strangeness. While the presence of a hooded figure and a ceremonial-looking baton may align with 18th-century occultism, the mechanical nature of the discovery—specifically the large machines and the ever-luminous sphere—suggests a technological presence far beyond the capabilities of the era.
From a modern ufological perspective, this case is a clear Close Encounter of the Third Kind (CE-III), involving direct observation of an animate being alongside anomalous, potentially non-human technology. The entity’s immediate and aggressive reaction—shattering the light source to conceal the chamber—mirrors modern reports of “Men in Black” or subterranean entity encounters where secrecy is a paramount objective. This account bridges the gap between traditional subterranean folklore and modern high-strangeness theories.
