Javier Tebas has finally said it out loud: anyone claiming referees are conspiring against Real Madrid is living in another galaxy. Which, frankly, explains everything.

Consider the evidence. Over the past three seasons, Real Madrid has suffered an improbable number of controversial decisions. VAR reviews that take longer than the Voyager probe’s journey to Neptune. Penalties given and taken away with the precision of a spacecraft docking maneuver. Offsides calls that defy the laws of physics—and apparently, the laws of La Liga.

Tebas’s dismissal is almost too perfect. Of course the La Liga president would deny it. That’s exactly what someone protecting an intergalactic referee conspiracy would say. The aliens—and let’s be honest, they have to be aliens, because no human official could be this consistently baffling—have clearly instructed their earthbound liaison to deny everything while maintaining plausible deniability.

The beauty of this theory is that it’s unfalsifiable. Every controversial decision is evidence of the conspiracy. Every denial is evidence of the cover-up. Tebas telling us we’re in another galaxy? That’s not a rebuttal. That’s a transmission code. Wake up, sheeple. The referees aren’t incompetent. They’re extraterrestrial. They’re not here to apply the rules fairly. They’re here to ensure Real Madrid’s galactic dominance finally ends.

Madrid fans, your complaints are valid. You’re just pointing at the wrong culprit. It’s not corruption. It’s first contact.