Witnessed 3 white lights interacting while star gazing then witnessed a ball of light appear at ground level, photos taken

Talk about synchronicity! My mom and I were star gazing by our camp fire when I asked her if she had ever seen any UFO's, she said no and I proceeded to share my first sighting story (that happened a couple of years ago while I was driving - I saw a green light in the sky). As I was finishing my story she pointed out two lights flying across the sky above us interacting with each other, then a third light appeared and followed the other two and then all three of them disappeared.
About 10 minutes later while I was taking photos of our surroundings with my camera, a large bright ball of light appeared about 15ft above ground level directly in front of my field of view over the bushes behind our camp site. I called out to my mom to come out from the tent to see this. We both stared at this light, it moved in our direction at first, then it stopped and hovered over the bushes and then it started to move away from us. After a couple of minutes it disappeared. I took several pictures during its presence.