Multiple spherical objects evenly spaced and heading in the same direction

I stepped outside around 6:00 a.m. this morning to take a quick glance at the sky as I'm an amateur astronomer. I noticed what appeared to be a satellite but was moving from Southwest to Northeast. To my surprise there was another similar object following directly behind the first in exactly the same direction.  When I looked down towards the Southwest several more objects were present spaced exactly the same distance apart and all heading in the same SW to NE direction. Initially I thought these were maybe military craft but there was no sound whatsoever and they appeared to be much higher in the sky similar to satellites. I'm not certain how many objects in total there were prior to my observation. I counted 8 while I was watching.