Multiple slow moving craft seen all over the sky during early morning hours.

On the way upstairs, I looked out my window and noticed things in the sky that were peculiar enough to make me turn around and go outside. It was a really clear night and there was a lot of odd air activity. I sat on my deck until 2am, focused on this one distant point in sky west of the big dipper. An object was hovering with side lights flickering for at least an hour. It frustrated me because the object had subtle, yet significant movement, so i could rule out stars, but not a helicopter/drone, and it was too far to get a clear definition. While I was focused on that object, I had at least two, much closer craft in another part of the sky fly nearby, They had a round profile and moved slow, quiet, and had subtle flickering lights along the belt of the craft. Underneath, there were red, low contrast, round lights that either spun in a circle, or pulsated on/off.  I don’t think I would have noticed the crafts if I wasn’t already looking at the sky. Later, a! nother craft, also slow and quiet, flew from behind and directly over me.  That craft had two relatively large orange lights spaced apart (shaped like car headlights aimed down without casting a beam) moving along a flight path that didn’t make sense as a plane.