Former NASCAR driver Mark Martin details mysterious UFO sighting while flying to Daytona

During his NASCAR career, Mark Martin experienced a lot on and off the track, and even in the air where he apparently saw a UFO once. Traveling 36+ weeks a year for work can stress you out, but Martin is sure what he saw was not a simple aircraft.

There are a lot of cool things about Mark Martin. His accomplishments on the race track, his newfound relationship with Antonio Brown, and his love for all things Gucci Mane. But he’s also a UFO believer.

Martin doesn’t just believe. He believes he has seen. Talking to Chase Holden, AKA Garage Guy Chase on his YouTube channel, the retired NASCAR driver told his story from the early 90s.

“We were coming home, just me and my pilot in my jet,” Martin explained. “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.”

When Martin and his co-pilot began to descend, that’s when things got weird. Over Jacksonville, a light popped up. Seeing other lights and aircraft while flying isn’t out of the ordinary. But one with a blinding white light increasingly getting closer? Not so ordinary.

Mark Martin describes UFO encounter

Mark Martin described his encounter with a lot of detail. It’s like this happened recently with how he told the story. He continued his story to Chase.

“So, it’s black. Everything except the lights in Daytona, Orlando, and you know, Miami,” Martin explained. “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.”

This is how the encounter ended:

“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.”

When Mark Martin and his copilot asked air traffic control, they were told they were the only aircraft between themselves and Orlando. Talk about a scary situation.