i was on a 34 foot fishing boat in an area called the cabot strait.there was 4 people aboard this boat, 2 were asleep, 1 was steering,and i was laying out on deck which is what i usualy do if it is nice wheather.it was a very clear night and i cant recall seeing a moon,the stars were very bright.we were travelling to the east,then from the south i seen a straight line of yellow lights travelling in a northerly direction.the easiest way for me to describe it is like this,from my vantage point,the lights looked to be the size of baseballs and they were about a foot apart,there were eight of them. they appeared to be very high ,i watched them for about 20 secs,then they just disapeared.so i just laying on the deck kind of shocked wondering if i should tell my crewmate who was steering the boat.if i told him ,iknew i would be unmercifully teased and ridiculled for along time,also i was thinking maybe i was seeing things. and then from the south,i seen more lights comming,this time there were 14 lights, same formation as the first,yellow baseballs about afoot apart, i watched these for about 20 secs then they were gone,these were also going from south to north.this may sound silly,but it seemed like they just passed through the top of our atmosphere.i then decided not to tell my crewmates or anyone else.til now.