A friend and I were on Route 7, driving back to Fredericton from Grand Bay, when we saw something very strange. I was in the passenger seat. It was about 9:15 pm, and we were a few kilometres past the Petersville hill exit on the highway. We noticed two exceedingly bright, large lights to our right, which were the colour of a camp fire. We could see two plumes of what appeared to be smoke rising almost vertically from the lights. We were traveling 110km/h, and the lights stayed with us for several kms, but the whole time the ���smoke��� continue to rise more or less vertically. The whole time they were moving with us, they stayed roughly the same distance apart from each other, and were at a minimum 500��� altitude , probably closer to 1000���. They stayed at basically the same altitude the whole time. After about 10 minutes, they seemed to ���slow down��� so I had to turn and look out of the passenger side rear window to see them. Just as the first two became obscured by the trees along the highway, I turned toward the front of the car and immediately noticed another single light at about 2 o���clock, which just ���appeared���. I looked back, and at this point there was only one of the original two back there, so it was as if one of them rushed to and/or ���appeared��� at the new position ahead of us. This time, it didn���t keep pace, and I kept my eyes on it until we reached the junction with the Trans-Canada at Oromocto.When I first saw the lights, I immediately thought they were flares, possibly being used for a night exercise at CFB Gagetown, but that couldn���t be the case because there was nothing holding them up. The light and smoke looked like fire, but there were no columns of flame or anything like that ��� they were just orbs. I have seen those Chinese paper lanterns that people send into the sky, but there is no possible way it was something like that.Although I am fully convinced that ET vehicles have and are visiting Earth, I���m not sold that this was an ET phenomena, but I can���t figure out what it might be. I took some photos with my camera phone, but of course they don���t show anything useful as it was dark and I was taking them out of a moving car.