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Seems reasonable that even an intersolar civilization would be subject to bugs, errors, degradation and bad luck. An intersolar trip could’ve damaged a craft far more advanced than what we can make.

Could be (perhaps even likely to be) an unpiloted craft. It could be a craft no more technologically advanced than human tech; maybe it’s an alien Voyager 1.

That is possible, strange things happen at sea.

Now in the case that they crashed due to a bug, then the programming profession is safe from program verification and AI, I like that option!

A good point. Although it could just be a probe. It could have been programmed to crash land on Earth. Much like we send probes to planets in our solar system.

That this is a possibility doesn't make it a likely one, however. But just pointing out that there's possible explanations that counter this thinking.

They didn't fill their ESTA. Dura lex sed lex