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2003: Caspian Sea, Iran UFO Sighting | Light Beams Case Archive

Driving the coastal road from Chalus to Shahsavar on the south shore of the Caspian Sea on August 20, 2003, a witness spotted two strong white lights, oval in shape, hovering about 300 meters up near a forest at the roadside — drifting slowly side to side and up and down, their beams flashing blue and yellow for a few seconds. He asked his cousin to pull over, but heavy traffic made it impossible. He watched for twenty seconds before a stand of tall roadside trees blocked his view; a minute later, when the road opened up again, the lights were simply gone.

Date: August 20, 2003

Sighting Time: 1:45 PM (13:45)

Day/Night: Daylight (“sunshine”)

Location: On the coastal road between Chalus and Shahsavar, near Nashtarud, south shore of the Caspian Sea, Iran

Urban or Rural: Rural

Hynek Classification: DD (Daylight Disc) — metallic or whitish object seen in the day, correctly applied given the roughly 2 km viewing distance

Duration: 20 seconds of confirmed direct observation; the witness then lost sight of the area for about 1 minute due to roadside trees, and the lights were no longer visible once the view cleared again. See Researcher’s Notes.

No. of Object(s): 2

Description of the Object(s): Two strong white lights, oval in shape, hovering about 300 meters up near a forest at the roadside; moved slowly side to side and up and down rather than traveling in a fixed direction; their beams appeared blue and yellow for a few seconds

Shape of Object(s): Oval

Size of Object(s): 5 to 10 meters diagonal

Color of Object(s): Primarily white; light beams appeared blue and yellow for a few seconds. Completed from the source; the original field listed only “white.”

Distance to Object(s): Approximately 2 km

Height & Speed: Approximately 300 meters altitude; moved very slowly, side to side and up and down

Number of Witnesses: 1 confirmed. A cousin was present in the vehicle, driving, but no explicit confirmation is given that he personally observed the lights. See Researcher’s Notes.

Special Features/Characteristics: Witness asked his cousin, who was driving, to stop the car, but heavy traffic made this impossible; view was blocked by tall roadside trees for about a minute after the initial 20-second observation; lights were no longer visible once the view cleared again

Case Status: Unexplained

Source: Undocumented — appears to be a directly submitted first-person account; original submission venue not specified

Summary/Description: At 1:45 PM on August 20, 2003, a witness driving the coastal road between Chalus and Shahsavar, on the south shore of Iran’s Caspian Sea, observed two strong white, oval lights hovering about 300 meters up near a roadside forest, moving slowly side to side and up and down, their beams briefly appearing blue and yellow. He watched for 20 seconds before losing sight of the area behind roadside trees; when the view cleared about a minute later, the lights were gone.

Related Cases: Undocumented — source does not reference other cases

Detailed Report

The witness and a cousin were driving along Iran’s Caspian coast on August 20, 2003, heading from the small beach city of Chalus toward Shahsavar on the main road. Somewhere between the two, near the beach village of Nashtarud, the witness looked to the west side of the road, toward the forest along the shore, and spotted two strong, separate white lights hanging about 300 meters up in the air.

The lights moved very slowly, drifting left and right, up and down, without any fixed direction. The witness judged them to be roughly 2 kilometers away and estimated their size at 5 to 10 meters across, oval in shape. For a few seconds, their steady white glow gave way to distinct blue and yellow beams — a quality the witness described as unlike anything else he could compare it to.

Wanting a better look, the witness asked his cousin to pull the car over, but heavy traffic on the road made that impossible. He kept his eyes on the lights for about 20 seconds before a stretch of tall, dense trees along the roadside blocked his view entirely. The car continued on for roughly another minute before the view opened up again — but by then, the lights were nowhere to be seen.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

The Caspian Coast Road — Iran 2003 and a View Blocked by Trees

Witness Count Ambiguity: The field lists a single confirmed witness. A cousin was present in the car, driving, and was asked to stop, but the account never explicitly states that he also saw the lights himself — his attention may have remained on the heavy traffic. This entry preserves that ambiguity rather than assuming a second witness.
Color Detail Added: The original field lists only “white,” but the witness separately describes the light beams themselves appearing blue and yellow for a few seconds — a detail folded in here rather than lost.
Two Different Timeframes: The “20 seconds” reflects only the period of direct, confirmed observation. The witness then lost sight of the area for about a minute due to tall roadside trees, and the lights were gone by the time the view cleared again — meaning the objects could have departed at any point during that unobserved minute, not necessarily right at the 20-second mark.
Classification Notes: DD is correctly applied — a daylight sighting at roughly 2 km distance, well outside any close-encounter threshold, with a clearly discernible but distant shape and color.
Evidentiary Weight: The account is modest and internally consistent, with no embellishment about the moment of disappearance — the witness is candid that the lights were simply gone when visibility returned, rather than claiming to have watched them vanish dramatically. No photograph or independent corroboration exists beyond this single account.

There’s an honesty to how this sighting ends — not a dramatic vanishing act, just a stand of trees, a minute of blocked road, and an empty patch of sky when the view opened up again. That plainness is part of what makes the account easy to take at face value. It remains filed as Unexplained, a brief, modest daylight sighting told without embellishment.