multiple ship sighting in Santa Barbara

a friend and I were hiking from our small farm in the Los Padres National Forest to a friends farm in Cuyama Valley. We made camp half way through the journey. In the middle of the night, I became completely awake and looked up to my left. I saw a large disc shape craft that had what looked like portholes with, what looked like a ball of light going around it. When the light went around the back of the vehicle, the light could be seen glowing over the hull. I shook the girl I was hiking with and told her to look up in the sky. She lifted he head up and then plopped back down - not interested. As I continued to watch, I noticed there were about nine samller discs coming toward the larger disc at about the 2:00 height. They weren't lighted, but I could see them against the backdrop of stars. As they were nearly to the hull of the larger disc, it began to evaperate. As the smaller unlit disc entered into the are where the larger disc was, they disappeared from light also. We wouold also see disc shaped clouds over our heads while working on our ranch. It would often be windy and the disc shaped cloud was often close - about the height you to throw a ball - and wouold sit stationary, while the clouds were flying by. The perimeter of the disc shaped cloud was cleary defined and looked like it had energy radiating off of it. We were always happy to have them around.
Date is approximate.  PD