I was talking on the phone with a friend looked up and saw red orbs in the far distance. Not once but twice.

Around 12:20am on 12/25/21 I was on the phone with a friend outside my house in Los Angles, CA. I was looking up at the beautiful sky with intermittent clouds overhead. That's when I spotted the "orbs" in a loose formation heading west, northwest. Maybe 8-10 of them, but as they got closer to the clouds 9 became 6, which became 4 and they went into the clouds. I could see them being lost as they traveled upward(I'm assuming). I told my friend what I just saw and said I wish I had filmed it. I tried to understand what they were - Helicopters? Not a chance, they moved too smoothly around each other. Planes? forget it, no way. Drones?? That seemed like the most likely answer, but they were WAY up there and would drones move like I saw? If I knew the height of the clouds, I could easily figure out the distance from where I was and they size of the objects. They were red, it was Christmas, could it be some sort of filming for a movie? I live in Los Angeles, you never know.
I told my friend what I saw and that it was unlike anything I've seen. I kept talking and looking and the orbs came back! In a different pattern, but they were back moving in the same direction. I got off the phone and filmed. I happened to have hanging lights up in the direction I was filming, but there is ZERO chance this was any type of lens flare. And there they are on my phone.