Strange night light ufos over Westlake Village California 11 November 2012

Mufon report I was in the living room when my mom pointed out lights in the distance out the window. We went outside and viewed orangish, goldish lights accending. We immediately thought they were helicopters, but helicopters dont have a bright orange light on them. At one time there were as many as six lights. They accended, decsended, hovered, changed directions, split up, regrouped, and before the lights dissapeared they began to get dim, bright, dim, bright. We were very confused as we have never see