Saw ISS/Satellite/meteor shaped object cross the sky at a slow speed, flickering, with two identical objects jettisoned to the rear

My kids and I went outside to play in a large snow pile I had plowed on our driveway a couple day’s before. It was right after dusk so I gave my kids flashlights to play in the snow tunnels they had previously made and I sat in the snow supervising their safety. It was very cold but high pressure so the sky was perfectly clear and I was enjoying the sky. My son sat next to me so I could adjust his hat and right as I went to adjust his hat I saw something moving in the sky to the west heading east. It had a fairly bright intensity of white light, slightly brighter than a star and was moving slow like when’s you see something in a polar orbit like a satellite. As it moved to the right of my viewing location it began to sparkle like maybe it was entering the atmosphere. After a second or two the sparkling stoped and it continued to move at the same speed and direction for another few seconds before there was a flash and two perfectly identical circular but slightly smaller objects with lesser light intensity were jettisoned behind the primary object and outwards at the exact time. The smaller objects quickly lost intensity and speed as the they separated and the primary objects continued on the same trajectory until it disappeared at the horizon. Myself, my son, and daughter all saw the objects.