At 2am, I was watching a flickering white star that would occasionally flicker red. Then a white light shot out of it to the east. A couple minutes later I saw another white light soot out of it to the east, but slightly south. They both looked like a shooting star, but originated at the flickering star.At 02:20am, directly south, at 35-40, I saw a brilliant flash of blueish white light. It only lasted a second.I've seen these flickering "stars" before in my back yard.One such star I saw every night for months. One night I noticed 5 of them spread out in the sky around Hutch. They were all about the same altitude, the same brightness, and they would occasionally flicker Red at different times.I never saw anything shoot out of them. I thought they were space junk or possibly a satellite.After the other night, I now believe they are mother shipsor space stations of some type that we do not know about.These lights left the flickering star at light speed and had a trail like a shooting star behind them. They vanisheddirectly after leaving the "flickering star".Something strange is going on here and I want to know what it is. Have you heard any reports like this before. Thank You John