Astronomers help needed please!?

I was looking at the night sky on a very clear night, watching for meteorites and the odd satellite going overhead. I saw a light blink and umed it was a plane's tail-light, and then it flashed again nearby, so that's fine, but then it flashed again near and to the left of the original flash, then away a little to the right and so on for around 15 - 20 flashes in a seemingly random pattern then nothing. The lights flashed exactly as a plane's would do, same size etc and at regular intervals of between 1 - 2 seconds. The distance between the flashes was quite small, just as you'd expect the distance would be between flashes of a plane's light, but of course a bit further if a flash was 'bottom left' then 'top right'. I've no idea what it was. Could I have been looking at a meteor shower coming directly towards me? Please bear in mind that the flashes had no 'length' as you see when a meteorite streaks across the sky. Thanks.