Bouncing big orbs

I looked up to the sky to notice these round shaped white lights bouncing around each other following in fast movement behind the clounds but bright enough to see they would go back n forth the edging of the clouds then disappear rapidly coming back in like a repeating pattern then there was a 45 min gap which i shone a lazer for litrally a split second then out of no where they were back as the clouds broke apart what looked like a shooting star in flame orange colour flew across the sky so fast i dont do this as a hobbie it caught my attention what was this