A 5 red light V shaped object firing out white objects.

I was lying down by the patio, looking at the stars, when I saw 5 red lights in a v shape, heading West to East.  It was a clear night and only saw lights nothing solid.  I would have thought it was just an airplane except there were no flashing lights.  What it was doing is what really made me question it.
	The craft appeared to have 3 corners as indicated by the red lights and as it was flying it was “shooting” white object out from each of the three corners.  From the left rear out towards the South South West, from the front it shot East and from the right rear corner it shot North North West.  It continued that pattern as long as I could see it.  The white objects speed was much faster than the speed of the craft.  The white lights shot very far out that I lost sight of them over the horizon.  As I remember it was about 2-3 seconds between each “shot”.
	As the craft passed over our house, I ran through the house and out the front door, down to the end of the dead end road we lived on, to an open field, where the landscape was open for a mile.  It just continued doing the same thing “shooting“ the white objects until it passed over the East horizon.
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