Looked like the little dipper, but then all at once, the lights burst away and went in different directions.

My boyfriend and I were visiting my family where I grew up. My family lives in the country, about 6 miles outside of town.
We were outside letting the dogs out, and we were looking at the eastern part of the sky. We saw what looked to be the Little Dipper, but the stars were moving extremely slow down in the sky. After about 1 minute of watching the set of stars move downward, they suddenly burst away from one another and started flying erratically in different directions, and some even changed colors from a white color to more of a green/white color. For about 10-20 seconds, we watched them move about in said manner, and then they flew away in different directions back up into the sky where they were no longer visible.