Shortly after midnight on May 10, 2009 I awoke to use the bathroom and as I was washing my hands I happened to look out the bathroom window which faces almost straight west. There were three orbs or spheres of white light moving/floating in a circular type counter clockwise motion above my neighbours house which is only about 20 feet from my home. They would then move upward and move around each other making an intricate design and then drop down and resume the circular motion again repeating this every few seconds (in a playful type manner). These spheres were not high up in the sky. I don't know for sure at what elevation they were but my bathroom window is probably about 30 feet off the ground and I had to look up slightly to watch this light show. Initially I thought someone was playing with spotlights but there were no beams leading up to these orbs, they were just floating in this same pattern over and over. I watched for a few minutes then began to realize this may be something very unusual. I became quite apprehensive and worried that "they" might know I was watching them so I crawled back into bed my mind racing as to what I had just witnessed. I got back up four or five minutes later to see if they were still outside my window but they were gone. All day Sunday I kept thinking about what I had seen, rehashing it in my mind. Unfortunately I was so mesmerized by this encounter I did not even think to take any pictures.