The Guy In Charge of Searching for Alien Tech Says It Doesn?t Exist. Yet.

Bill Diamond has a point. If alien technology is so advanced that it can reach Earth from a distant location we don’t know exists, that technology likely wouldn’t be so flawed that it would crash-land in the New Mexico desert.

In fact, Diamond has a few points. In an interview given to Space.com, the president and CEO of the SETI Institute—which partners with NASA on a mission “to lead humanity’s quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe”—said its pretty farfetched to believe advanced alien technology exists.

“We don’t have any evidence of any credible source that would indicate the presence of alien technology in our skies,” he told Space.com. “And we never have. The idea that the government is keeping something like this secret is just totally absurd. There’s no motivation to do so.”