The Lost Empire

Just beyond the reaches of our solar system a space-craft carrying 3 dead beings was on course for a direct impact with planet Earth. The craft itself had developed a fault. Whilst it's rocket systems remained intact and operating, it's life support systems had failed and the 4 passengers had died frozen to death.

Though the passengers were dead, perhaps the last survivors of a dying planet or race, the craft itself contained a wealth of information on their journey, biometrics, culture and historical data. In fact, it may even be possible that Earth scientists could reverse engineer the craft to find out the secrets of space-travel.

The space-craft had reached the moons orbit by the time scientists and astronomers around the Earth shared their data, and governments prepared their military for action. Then an unfortunate thing happened, the gravitational systems onboard the craft failed, causing the corpses and other loose items to float. One of the corpses bumped into a control panel and this caused the guidance system to reset a trajectory for the Sun.

The craft missed Earth and flew directly into the sun within hours, burning up before even getting within reach of a solar flare. All valuable data and explanation for the existence of the craft went with it.