Elon Musk agrees with that assessment, as do I.
The State will push this phony narrative as far forward as it can. As I have said, they will filibuster the issue because admitting there is a more intelligent life form admits they are no longer in control. Now how could they possibly acknowledge that humbling fact?
SERCO, our City of London-based patent overlords, abscond with and hide from sight all the really cool patents as they make their way passed the ostensibly-USPTO on Jeff Highway.
The real status of high tech is kept hidden, much akin to things at Area 51.
Our universities' best and brightest are often enticed away to government projects as they're placed under the most stringent NDA's while receiving very high (black ops) compensation. They get to work on advanced tech while the rest of us are left to worship the plagiarizing fraud/actor, bottom-of-his-class physics star, Albert E. and Bill Nye, "the science guy."
"Kirkpatrick went on to say that if his office found irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life or technology, his office would notify NASA and quickly inform government leadership.
“In the event sufficient scientific data were ever obtained that a UAP encountered can only be explained by extraterrestrial origin, we are committed to working with our interagency partners at NASA to appropriately inform government leadership of its findings,” Kirkpatrick said.
The above in bold are weasle-speak, but gubmint reps like Kirkpatrick are right when they say the observations that have thus far been made don't need an extraterrestrial explanation.
As George Carlin would say, "There's this really big club... and we ain't in it."