The Frightening Magnolia UFO

The  following  occurred  on  July  1,  1985  at  10:00  p.m.,  perhaps  while  I  and  my  wife  were  away  on  a  trip,  so  that  we  weren't  around  to  see  the  following ...

The  reporting  individual   lived  on  Camden  Avenue  across  the  street  from  Magnolia  Public  School  school  yard.  I've  cleaned-up  the  diction  a  little  for  the  sake  of  clarity ...

[At]  approximately 10 p.m.  I was sitting watching TV with my parents. when the TV   [suddenly]  got fuzzy.

We heard some people making noise outside a few minutes later.  When my dad looked outside to see what was going on, he called us all outside.  Directly across the street from my house is  [Magnolia  Public  School]  school yard.

Approximately  100 yards away. hovering approximately 200 feet above the school, was a huge, bright, white, completely illuminated, egg-like sphere with a band of changing colored lights along the perimeter of this craft.

We are located about 20 miles from Philadelphia  International  Airport.   We were outside, along with all of our neighbors, looking up at this object.   It was about the size of a football field.

When airport traffic patterns  [i.e.,  passenger  jets  making  their  final  approach  to  International  Airport] came in our direction,  the object would black-out [so  that  it  was] almost invisible, but because of our close distance we could still see it.

We tried to call the local news stations but all outgoing calls  [were  met  with  a  busy  signal]  --   even [calls]  to other phones in our house, as if  [the  UFO] was jamming the phone lines!   The cable was messy, too.

The object hovered silently  for approximately 20 to 25 minutes.

Then  [it]  “ramped-up”  -- I  guess is the best way to describe it  --   It started speeding up the color changing lights as if it were  building-up  power  [somehow], and it took off straight-up in the air at a speed unimaginable,  so fast it left a visual trail of light in the air --almost like, if you span a picture of a moving [flash]light,  it trails.  Everyone stayed out side for a while and talked about what it might [have] been.  We never saw it again.

You  can  see  the  original   of  the  report,  from  the  files  of  the  National  UFO  Reporting  Center,  here ...

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/034/S34568.html#sthash.ZCOJZtA3.dpuf

The  "PD"  in  the  last  line  of  the  report  isn't  me.