15-20 Lights in the sky traveling in pairs

I was looking at the sky towards the east and I saw a white light traveling north east. Initially I thought it was a satellite until I noticed there was another one following behind. A couple of minutes later, and saw two more in the same formation heading in the same direction.
I went in the house and told my husband, he came to look but they were too far away at that point. I went back to my phone call but keep watching the sky. A few minutes later there were three lights traveling together in the same direction, I yelled through the door to my husband and sat back down. One of the lights broke off from the other two and headed north west.
My husband sat down with me at this point, and we noticed more lights appearing to come out of the clouds one by one, and head north east with the occasional one headed north west. I lost count at 15, but I would say there were up to 20 lights that did this.
We watched as the majority of them went out of sight, but there were 3 to 4 that stayed in the general area. We continued to watch them for a while. They were moving slowly, but kind of spontaneously.
I then noticed a cluster between 5-8 of very dim, flashing lights in the same area that appeared to be dancing around but all traveling in the same general direction (west-south west.)