I talked your email over with my daughter and son-in-law, and we all agree it wasn't lanterns, for three reasons:
 1.  All of them moved sideways, not upward, and there was very little, if any, wind that night.   And the weird thing was they each followed almost exactly the same trajectory
2.  They were each too large to be lanterns
3.  They moved fast, faster than a regular airplane...those lanterns move slowly, due to the small amount of flame used to propel them

I wish they were lanterns...it makes me feel unsettled that we saw them so clearly and have no explanation!  Yes, hopefully someone else saw them and will reply.  Thanks again!

I have never in my 68 years seen anything in the sky that wasn't explainable (sp), so hoping someone can explain this. My family and I were just sitting outside eating a late dinner. My son-in-law suddenly pointed to the sky and said, "What the heck is that?" At first, we thought it was an airplane. But the object didn't blink and the color remained a constant orange/yellow color...Very bright colors. It was approximately star-shaped and flew much faster than an airplane. And it was totally silent. It flew West and blinked out as We watched. We were discussing it and, approximately 5 -7 minutes later,  another appeared.  Same color and size, absolutely silent. Over the next 20 minutes, a total of five appeared within 5-7 of each other. The third was larger than the others, but still totally silent and appeared to be flying lower and closer. This time, it blinked out shortly after passing us overhead. Each time, the other objects flew West and each blinked out and disappeared in the distance. Did anyone else see these tonight? My son-in-law attempted to video on his phone, but we're having problems uploading...I will upload when we ascertain the problem.

Chevron-shaped object seen: NUFORC report S155411

I was bird watching. And I'm looking in the sky and something caught my attention. White I saw the color solid white. And I see what I think is a big bird like and owl. I'm watching this thing flying but only in a downward circle. Every couple of downward descents that it made it flaw its wings but only once kind of like a glider then flap and it shine a shiny spot like when the sun is shining and the lite reflects it. I looked away for 3 seconds and it completely disappeared. It was gone .

Black leading edges outlined with amber lights. Flashing light on top of craft. 3 rows of flashing lines going across.

Craft approached from the east and flew over my house. When the craft was overhead the lights blinked off and were replaced by white lights. Another larger craft came from the west and rendezvoused with the smaller craft. Neither craft made a sound.

Coming out of Forth Worth completing a Lyft ride on my way back and looked up barely in time but I thought it was a falling/shooting star until it changed from a bright white, slowed slightly and changed to a greenish glow then continued for maybe 2 seconds and I'm not sure if I would call it vanishing but damn like it blended with the night sky. Pulled over for a minute cause truth be told got scared as sh** that I didn't even want to continue in that direction but I live in Irving so I had no choice. This makes twice this month is happen but I felt it was time to share it finally. Believe or not. When that sh** happens to you then you will see.

December 11th 9:57 AM in Bedford, TX:

Witnessed floating vertical triangle. With red, and white lights. First sighting around 1:29 am. Second sighting around 2:00 am. Lights went on, and off. Triangle behaves as a ufo then transitions to a slow moving (like) airplane with red running lights. Object vanishes either out of sight or turns running lights off. Suspect it to be some sort of helicopter or airplane capable of hovering for extended periods of time. Not the first time seeing these anomalies in the same vicinity of the Bedford Dallas Fort Worth Texas airport area. This sort of sighting occurs every other month. Have tracked some airplanes landings, and taking off from the airport with strange light patterns, later going in the same tracks as the UFOs.

NUFORC report (case 151458)

December 14th and 15th in Arlington, TX:

12/14/19 8pm also 12/15/19 117am

First sighting was lights in the sky was on the phone than looked up seen it dart really fast across my yard than stop above my neighbor house than took off slow and gone vanished thin air

Second sighting walking back to the cabin from main house seen triangle ship lights right when reached in my pocket to pull my phone out to get picture it took of so fast and disappeared and the thing was both times seen them it was very quiet which is weird where I live was so quiet that could've herd someone breathing