Super bright white objects hovering together slowly emitting energy field or bright gas.

It was Friday, December 22, in Torrance, California, around 5:30 pm.  The sky was already dark (just after twilight).  I was stuck in pre-Christmas traffic driving North on Crenshaw Boulevard just east of a local Torrance Airport.  I looked toward west from my car window and saw a bright light which appeared to be a small airplane emitting contrails, but it looked odd since it was much brighter.  As I stared, what appeared to be contrails got thicker, and as the airplane (or what I thought was an airplane) gained its altitude, contrails became massive almost exploding, leaving a bright white gas in the air.  As I observed the object which kept moving in the direction of south east, it looked like it split into two separate objects which moved together.  It almost looked like the object in front was pulling the object in the back.  It was difficult to identify since both objects were super bright or surrounded like some kind of energy field.  The object which appear! ed to be being pulled kept emitting something because whatever it was, it was shooting out some kind of white gas or energy, making circular ripples in the air.  
Other drivers were also looking up and taking videos or pictures (turning around by this time, since we were heading north in the opposite direction). Since traffic began moving,  I could not see what happened after that, but my husband and I both witnessed the incident along with many other drivers, and the objects were not airplanes.  They almost looked like they were floating, and no sound of engine or jets could be heard.
Missile launch.  PD