Fallout 4 UFO crash bugged?

[Blargh]

So I'm pretty sure now that the alien ship is never gonna crash because at the crash site there is only white smoke which kills my fps and level one raiders. Can anyone confirm that this is a bug?

To save time let me answer a few things:

Yes I know it is a random encounter I've seen it 6 times on my other characters and I have never seen this white smoke cloud before.

My Luck is 10 and I'm level 77.

No I don't have any mods installed.

I have traveled on foot everywhere. I've cleared out vault 75 and every other dungeon and yes I've gone to the farthest point away from the crash site.

[Vinnie Mack]

sounds like a bug. They squirm there way into the game frequently. Just yesterday i got a bug that made it so i could not open anything: no fires, no corpses, no boxes. Luckily i only had to go back to a previous save that only lost me 5 minutes. I would say go back to a previous save and see if that changes things. Have you gone into the cave yet?

[Pinger]

It's not random but happens at level 20 but usually after fast traveling. You say you went on foot, fast travel near it and you should see the crashing ship speed by

[Blargh]

I haven't gone into the cave yet I might try that. I don't really have a save that far back either.

[Blargh]

I guess an easy fix would be console command but I haven't found one related to the ufo crash.

[Vinnie Mack]

you could go into the cave from present save. Come to think of it, i think i came across the same situation with one of my characters: i saw the smoke and the pit and didnt' know about the UFO at the time. I was pleased when i came upon the site with a different character and found the ufo and the trail of vulcan blood. Is the trail there? Because in the end it probably is a bug, but if you still get the weapon, you can also tell yourself that the UFO had an auto destruct that the alien was able to set off before crawling off to the cave.

[Blargh]

No blood and no alien just mole rats.

[Vinnie Mack]

Originally posted by Blargh:

No blood and no alien just mole rats.

that sort of sucks. I guess try a previous save or accept the fact this play through might not give you the alien blaster.

[(• ε •)]

Have the same problem in my 2nd playthrough, just smoke that kills the FPS and nothing else. First playthrough I got the alien blaster so I know for sure it's broken.

[danconnors]

The alien blaster is a pathetic weapon anyway. I hardly ever bother to pick it up on recent play throughs.