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NASCAR legend Mark Martin recalls near-miss with UFO over Florida

By T.K. Randall
January 14, 2025 · Comment icon 6 comments
Mark Martin
Martin speaking at an event in 2023. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 TaurusEmerald
The racing legend had been flying home on a private jet when the aircraft almost collided with a mystery object.
Speaking recently in an interview with Garage Guy Chase, Martin, who was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2017, described a close encounter he'd had back in the 1990s.

He had been flying over Jacksonville, Florida on his way to Daytona and the only other person in the aircraft was his pilot.

"So, it's black... 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," he recalled.

"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 (pilot) Jason (Simpson) 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!'"

"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."

Eerily, after the sighting, air traffic control confirmed that there had been no other aircraft present at the time.

So what was the anomalous object that Martin's plane nearly hit that day ?

We will probably never know for sure.



Source: Mail Online | Comments (6)




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Recent comments on this story
Comment icon #1 Posted by Antigonos 29 days ago
I stopped reading after “NASCAR”.
Comment icon #2 Posted by Hazzard 29 days ago
Havent you heard... NASCAR dudes are like pilots and astronauts... They are never wrong!! Especially not about UFOs.
Comment icon #3 Posted by Cho Jinn 29 days ago
Bubba Wallace races in NASCAR, you know.  You don't mean to say....
Comment icon #4 Posted by Earl.Of.Trumps 27 days ago
Pretty interesting account. It;s a UFO of a kind we'll never know.
Comment icon #5 Posted by Hazzard 27 days ago
That kinda self explanatory... dont you think?!! ?
Comment icon #6 Posted by Golden Duck 26 days ago
It says it on the tin


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