Long disc with approximately 10 round uniform lights.

A group of friends were on a small island on the intracoastal near Wilmington, NC. We saw what first appeared to look like a comet in the distance but it continued to come closer to our location.  Once it was above our group it looked like a long disc shape with approx 10 equally shaped and uniform white lights.  All 7 in our group witnessed the same account. It was not like anything we had ever seen. It soon disappeared altogether.  There is no explanation for what we saw.