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Mark Martin, in addition to being a great NASCAR driver, is also a person who often revealed interesting stories from his career. The last story in the series attracted the special attention of NASCAR fans, since this experienced driver revealed that he saw a UFO returning from one of the races.
Mark Martin said that he and the pilot were returning from a race in the 90s, and it was late.
“We were coming home, just me and my pilot in my jet,” Martin said, as quoted by On3.
“We were coming back from one of the northeast races. Either Loudon or, couldn’t be Pocono. I don’t know if it was Loudon or if it was Dover, or where it was. We were coming home, it was late though, that’s the thing I don’t understand, but it was dark. Dark, dark. We fly at 45,000 feet but going over Jacksonville going home to Daytona where I lived, you know, they would bring you down to 18,000 feet or so.”
During the ride on the plane, at one point, Martin noticed bright white lights approaching them.
“So, it’s black. Everything except the lights in Daytona, Orlando, and you know, Miami,” he continued. “You can see the lights down at Miami even. And I see a light that is solid white light, looks solid light that’s not flashing, and that could only be like a landing light is the only thing that would make sense would be a spotlight looking light like that, and it would have to be far away because I couldn’t see the green and red wing tip lights.”
The popular driver was increasingly worried, and he had the feeling that he was going to hit that. In those moments, there was a huge panic, and Martin didn't know what to do. His co-pilot was also surprised and worried, not knowing what was happening. Although at one point they tried to make a photography, the light started moving away.
Years later, both of them still wonder what happened that night, but they are sure that it was a UFO.
“So, I keep it in my eye, I keep checking up there and checking up there and it gets closer and closer, I didn’t say anything to Jason I’m just flying along. Finally, I just start, I fixate on it. Plane’s on autopilot … and so I’m fixated on it and it gets closer and closer and closer and then it gets like, oh my God, we’re going to hit that!
“And I grabbed the yolk and kicked it off autopilot and was getting ready to jerk the plane to the right and Jason was like, ‘What?’ and I said, ‘Look!’ And when he looked, he pulled out a camera, he had a camera on him, and he pulled out a camera and put it up there in the windshield and tried to take a picture because he saw it! We both saw this and almost, we thought we were going to hit it. Then it starts pulling away, gradually pulling away, slowly pulling away.”
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