Object in the early morning sky with strobing light seperate from the object throwing balls of white light toward the earth.

I am a truck driver of 28 years, 24 of which is over night driving.  I'm used to seeing drones and stealth craft while traveling near Edwards AFB.  This blew my mind.  
While traveling east on highway 138 near Pearblossom Ca at 5:10 a.m., I noticed about 20 degrees to the south of what I believe is Venus in the early morning sky a very bright strobing light.  At first I thought it was an aircraft strobe but all at once a strobe of light shot about 1/4 of the way to the earth followed by several others at incosistent intervals.  
I pulled to the side of the road and watched for about 10 minutes.  Above the strobe was an object in the sky that did not seem to be connected to the strobe and did not seem to move side to side or up and down but appeared to be moving further away until th object could no longer be seen.  I could not tell how far away the strobe was, maybe a couple miles, maybe 20.  There was nothing to relate it to in the sky.
The strobe turned to a steady dot of light for a few minutes before starting to strobe again and then stopped and disappeared.  
I waited another minute or two and then there was one final strobe of light about twice as bright as Venus.  
It made me jump and was not seen again.  
What did I see!