I was driving South on US Highway 95 near Ashton, NV, on 12/15/2009 at 6:44 P.M.. To the East and to the South East I noticed five lights hovering over the mountain in the distance that twinkled on and off several times in two to three second intervals before disappearing for five seconds and re appeared fifteen degrees to the east. I estimate that the mountains I was approaching which the craft were on the other side of were ten miles away thirty degrees above the horizon. It hovered motionless for several seconds and the objects turned white in color then converged into one bright white object and was gone. I was able to have my passenger take two still photos of the object(s)which have some distortion of the image due to road vibration.Approximately Forty Five Degrees to my left, I noticed another object hovering above the mountain at the same altitude as the first. It hovered and disappeared after fifteen seconds. My passenger was able to film the craft and the one to follow a minute later using a 640 x480 pixel digital video recorder. As he was filming another appeared directly ahead of us appeared but was gone too quickly to be filmed.