I was in in the backyard with my telescope observing Saturn and Mars.I started to walk indoors to get some water and noticed a bright which I though to be a plane but the color was off and it was not blinking.I proceeded it watch it change direction and ascend out of view. I thought perhaps it was a flare but cannot explain why it would move up?At this point I noticed another light coming from the same direction followed by three more in a triangle pattern. These all ascended to the east and followed a similar pattern. These objects looked fiery and I grabbed my wife to come see. Over the course of 5 minutes we observed ~15 more similar objects. The 10th or so one was larger and had smaller ones circling it which it appeared to then absorb.We were both a little frightened as we had never seen anything similar. Eventually all objects seemed to move too far to be observed.The following day I just observed an unmarked black hawk circling in the vicinity of where we saw the lights.