Three lights the size of stars circle each other in the sky.

We were sitting outside looking North along the beach when three lights that appeared to be stars at first started circling around each other. The objects appeared to be hovering at a distance away from each other before circling. After they rotated around each other two times they parted ways and went opposite directions. After about three seconds the objects approached each other again and made two to three more rotations after which they parted ways again. One object completely disappeared while the others remained in the sky hovering in the same location. The objects seemed to be white/light orange in appearance and did not flash or make any sound. They were high enough in the sky to appear the same size and brightness as stars. The observers were a 23 year old male, a 51 year old male, and a 51 year old female. The previous night the same observers witness two objects slightly brighter than stars fly across the full length of the horizon in about 5 seco! nds. They were moving too slow to be meteors, and too fast to be any identifiable aircraft. Both moving in opposite directions.