Small craft with smoke trails and extraordinary maneuvers

While we were driving on the freeway around dusk, we saw several very dark dots and what appeared to be a smoke trail from a very small craft. We obtained approximately one minute of video. The craft maneuvered erratically, at one point going straight vertical, while leaving small trails of dark smoke. There appeared to be a large craft above the smaller craft, or it was a large plume of stationary smoke. Towards the end of the sighting, we saw what appeared to be military planes with flashing strobes enter in from the West behind the craft.