I was working in the casino industry at that time and was coming home from work that morning. We lived on the water next to Absecon Bay. I was coming down my street(which was a culdisack) and as I approached my driveway looked across the bay and saw a large purple sphere at about 45 degrees. I pulled in my driveway and watched this thing for a couple of minutes then went into the house to wake up my wife. She came outside and asked what was going on, when I told her to look in the sky and tell me what she is looking at. That 's when she was shccked. As we observed this large purple object, two smaller orange objects came out from each side of it and just hovered, I wish that I had a camera, but no luck. As we watched they were gone in a flash. No sound, no trails, just disapeared.