Several lights, that lit up one at a time, flew up, dimmed out..NOT STARLINK

I was sitting outside with my friend in the evening about 10 PM or so on my porch and I noticed out of the corner of my eye a pretty bright flash in the southern sky. I asked my friend if he saw that flash and he didn’t see the first one, but with in about 10 or 15 seconds, there was a bright light that appeared in the same spot, shot forward, and dimmed out. We both saw this happen. About 10 seconds or so pass, a light appears in the spot as before, flew about the same distance and dimmed out. The strangest part about it was that the light or lights, lit up in the same spot every time. It it was brighter than the satellites I’m used to seeing and moved much faster than any satellite I’ve seen. It wasn’t a string of lights , it was NOT starlink, I am sure of that because I have seen starlink several times. It was one light at a time. This same pattern went on about 15 or twenty times. Sky’s were totally clear, no cloud cover. After this activity seemed to stop , I saw that there were several different moving objects in the sky.I was looking all over and counted at least five in different directions. These objects were not aircraft ( not planes or helicopters or drones) they seemed to be much further away, smaller, dimmer and didn’t seem to be moving on a straight path. I do not know if these dim light had anything to do with the main incident I’m reporting, but i did see them immediately afterwards.