one, then two lights turning off and on moving across the southern Arizona sky

One then two lights over my neighbor's house to the southeast of mine.  Red lights turned off and one reappeared about 3 seconds later to the West.  Over my neighbors across from me.  Then turned off and reappeared just east again.  
A few minutes later, we saw 5-6 jets with it seemed like strobe light in the backs, flying in a row from North to South going East towards the direction of the red lights that were turning on and off and moving across the sky.  The lights moved too straight, back and forth too fast.
We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be both quite objective in his description of the sighting, and sober-minded.  We have changed the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting.  PD