A possible answer to the above question may be found in an unusual award ceremony by NASA that awarded the “Johnson Spaceflight Center Group Achievement Award” to a group of USAF Space Command personnel called the “Human Spaceflight Support Team”. The Space Command team was honored for giving: "exceptional support in keeping the space shuttle, International Space Station and its crews safe from the dangers of orbital debris, spacecraft collisions and other inherent hazards of orbit operations." ww.afspc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123063509. The problem is that Space Command officially only tracks space debris and other hazards and does not have the capacity to do anything more than give warning of possible collisions. However, as researcher Ted Twietmeyer points out: “It's important to note that neither the Space Station nor the Space Shuttle can ever make large orbital corrections. Only small changes or corrections are possible, and can often require more than one orbit to have a noticeable effect.” www.rense.com/general78/usx.htm. So if only small course corrections can be made to avert space debris or other problems tracked by military satellites and radar, then how can the USAF Space Command give Space Shuttle missions “exceptional support” in dealing with “inherent hazards of orbit operations?” A possible answer is that the USAF Space Command has a secret fleet of antigravity vehicles, like the alleged Aurora, that can give assistance when urgently needed.

It’s worth pointing out that Clark McClelland stated that the being “did move its arms a lot. Almost like giving instructions! Was tall being giving the two tethered astronauts assistance in a hazardous situation confronting the Space Shuttle mission? If the delta wing craft witnessed by McClelland was part of the USAF Space Command giving assistance, then the question still remains, does Space Command employ in its secret corps of non-terrestrial officers, eight to nine foot tall personnel? Or did McClelland indeed witness an extraterrestrial being and craft assist a Space Shuttle mission?

McClelland’s 34 year service in NASA has resulted in him compiling a long list of awards and testimonials, meetings with a long list of VIPs, scientists, celebrities and politicians concerning NASA missions, click here!!. McClelland’s long interest in UFOs apparently led to his abrupt termination from NASA in 1992, denial of his retirement benefits, and an ongoing legal effort to restore these. Did NASA take preemptive action to discredit McClelland by sacking him prior to his retirement, and denying him benefits since he had seen and knew too much about secret NASA operations? Clark McClelland’s testimony cannot be glibly dismissed as a fiction concocted by a disgruntled former Space Craft Operator. His revelations are first hand testimony of secret NASA operations involving possible extraterrestrial life and advanced spacecraft technologies that have yet to be disclosed to the American public.