Red light over Boise dropping other red lights out of it toward the ground

My husband noticed a red light coming from over downtown Boise, it was moving rather slowly upwards and kind of north east towards the governor's house.  Every few minutes it would drop a red light that looked like a shooting star out of it and it would fall towards the ground.
My husband saw five lights fall out of it total, and I saw two of them myself.  We called our three kids outside who stood and watched it with us.  It then stopped up in the clouds for roughly five minutes before it almost just kind of faded out while it was hovering in place.