Do you really believe in craft that happily fly around the galaxy at faster than light speeds, flown by representatives of a highly advanced civilisation, and yet when they reach Earth's atmosphere they suddenly and inexplicably crash? They, as in more than one?
Aerodynamics and warp drives are very different things. Perhaps they come from a planet with a very thin atmosphere and have a limited notion of how to stabilze craft in turbulence or storms. Perhaps they regard in-atmosphere craft as expendible. Perhaps the earths' magnetosphere is close to the limits of their crafts' capabilities and occasionally causes malfunctions. Who knows?
My point is not that this stuff is actually something we should believe. I'm just pointing out that in the absence of facts, and with an abstract notion of highly superior technology, with a modicum of imagination, you can fit any narrative to any set of "facts" you want.
You also see the same kind of "reasoning" around "The singularity", a hypothesized moment when AI becomes conscious, exponentially smarter, and then everything changes.
What's happened in that community is sort of hilarious and appalling at the same time. Over time, people have taken a scientifically plausible idea introduced by Ray Kurzweil, a legitimate technologist, and gradually become CERTAIN that "the singularity" will be, in almost every detail, a secular version of the Christian rapture and second coming of Christ.
They get REALLY MAD when you point this out, but it's basically a shot-for-shot remake of the Christian end times prophecies - with a lot of the bad stuff edited out depending on who you ask. (there is a whole line of reasoning where the AI punishes non-believers who are aware of the concept for failing to hasten the singularity... sound familiar?)
The Singularity has become all but a religious concept, with people fervently hoping the end times will come in their lifetimes and solve all their problems. The whole thing of earthly paradise, and people joining God (AI) in Heaven (minds uploaded to VR) is extremely on-the-nose.
Just goes to show people will look for "Deus Ex Machina" all over the place, sometimes in actual machines, sometimes in aliens, sometimes in gods, sometimes in eccentric billionaires. We want to believe, and it's difficult to stop.