Three bright lights moving across the sky

I was just out for dinner with my husband and baby in Jacksonville, Florida and upon returning to our car we stopped to look at the moon as it looked quite beautiful tonight. I then noticed what at first I thought was an aeroplane as it was very bright and moving but my husband explained aeroplanes don't have steady lights, so we thought that maybe it was a satellite, but the sky was still quite light and it just seemed to be too bright. We then noticed it had 2 smaller lights trailing some way behind it. The lights continued to move across the sky fading and then getting brighter every now and then until they disappeared from sight. I was wondering what this could have been? Maybe a meteorite passing the earth? We have been racking our brains and can't think what those strange lights could have been.