Sometimes 3 at a time fading and reappearing at different spots 20 to 30° above north horizon

Observation Details

Location

Socorro

34.0584°N, -106.8914°W

NM, USA

Witness Account

Between 2 am and 4 am driving up I25 heading to Albuquerque, I could see white/orange lights fade in and out moving slowly through the constellation Cassiopeia. One would fade in about as bright as Venus for about 10 seconds and fade out. Usually as one fully faded, a second or third would appear. Everytime one faded, you could see a faint millisecond flash just above where the craft faded. One time as the light was fading, one accelerated east way faster than any military jet can fly. This only happened once. It seemed like they were flying in an oval. Fading in southbound and fading out north. This happened until the light polluted skies from Albuquerque ruined the view. Another strange thing I noticed was, as I was driving north, they never appeared closer above me. They were always 20 to 30° above the horizon which doesn't make sense. I pulled over three times to try and figure out what I was seeing. I'm stumped. Too late for a commercial flight pattern. I tried to take video, but it's of course bad noisy quality like all the other videos. I need to bring a Sony a7III DSLR to really capture this noise free.

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