Well, hopefully one day somebody will perform this experiment successfully and write a rigorous paper about it, and upload video and provide the experimental data and soforth. I think that would elicit independent experimental replications at some universities or perhaps NASA, and off we'd go.
The problem with purely anecdotal accounts is that any number of factors can produce a false positive.
This gent gave it a shot with null results:
12 inch resin gravitators construction details (June to October, 2001)
12 inch resin gravitators mark 1 and mark 2 (June to October, 2001)
And as you can see with these experiments, he discovered that current leakage from exposed conductors can produce enough ion wind to induce motion:
Poynting Flow Thruster Experiments
But then there are also potential thermal deformations in the power leads while the current flows through them that can induce a false positive.
So it's not enough to say that seeing is believing; all of this stuff has to be dealt with rigorously in order to present a compelling argument for a genuine scientific discovery. And I have a very hard time believing in the validity of this effect, because any college electronics lab would have the resources to try this out, and so far, nobody has ever affirmed the validity of this experiment. I'd like to think that it simply hasn't been conducted properly, or that it's been somehow overlooked. So it's in my grey basket.
I wish I could do that. But I spend all of my discretionary income on my own research.
Thanks for sharing your accounts, they're fascinating.
I suspect that those black triangles are man-made - I mean, they look so much like the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber that it's hard
not to think they're the next gen in USAF hardware.
One possible method of non-gravitational field propulsion might explain such craft - a high-frequency focused magnetic beam could induce Lenz law repulsion via electrical currents in the silica of the Earth's crust, as described in this fascinating Lockheed patent:
US5929732A - Apparatus and method for amplifying a magnetic beam - Google Patents
And I've seen infrared footage shared by Richard Dolan in some of his talks that appears to show triangular man-made craft operating in the upper atmosphere, just beyond view of the unaided human eye. They move in an odd way, but they still obey the conventional laws of inertia, so I think they're probably ours.
But it seems highly unlikely that the kind of craft I saw as a kid could be human technology - those things zig-zagged across the sky at thousands of miles per hour in perfect formation; it was like watching a pair of glowing ping-pong balls reflecting off of invisible barriers in the sky. No slowing or curving when they changed direction at an acute 30-degree angle, over and over again. Only a gravitational field propulsion system could do that without producing crushing g-forces. I did a rough calculation one time and if it were any kind of non-gravitational propulsion system, the g-forces would've been greater than those of a slug from a high-power rifle reflecting off of a solid block of steel, over and over again.
I seriously doubt that we have anything with that kind of gravitational field propulsion capability. I would love to think that we do - because with that level of technology it's an easy romp to the closest stars in our neighborhood of the galaxy. But that entails applied general relativity, and we haven't even made the first baby steps in that direction yet, in the public sector anyway. It might be possible that there's a breakaway civilization that has that level of technology right now, but I just can't accept the possibility that we've had that level of technology since the 60s without seeing some very compelling evidence for it. For me it's not enough to read this or that claim in a book - talk is cheap...
claims are cheap. And the world is chock full of hoaxers and BSers. So, personally, my standard of evidence is much higher than mere words.
But if somebody could explain the theory of operation for such an achievement, and maybe provide some technical specs and a modest proof-of-principle demonstration - then I'd take that very seriously.
In any case, I tend to agree with your sentiment: if some of these puppies are alien in origin (and I think that some of them are), then yes of course we're dramatically outmatched technologically. But they've never bombed a city or anything like that, so they don't seem to have any interest in destroying us. Maybe they're just studying us to figure out wtf is wrong with us, haha.