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I am an airline pilot and former combat helicopter pilot. I was flying north over Idaho on December 8 at 34,000 feet. I captured many short videos from the span of 20:30- 21:00 local while looking at about 280 degrees (westerly). This video is the 3 best videos combined. Many of the other videos there is only one light fading in and out of brightness. This is not the first time I have seen these lights. I have seen them pretty steadily since September. They always appear in about the same general direction. I have only seen them while west of the Rockies. Traveling at normal airliner speeds and witnessing this phenomenon over a long span of time, we travel hundreds of miles, yet the lights appear in more or less the same spot. This leads me to believe that they are at an extremely high altitude, and pretty far away. I have reported this to ATC and they have no idea what it could be. When they are at their brightest they are brighter than Venus. Also you can see an aura around the lights as if they are illuminating the nearby atmosphere. I have no idea what these could be, but they certainly don’t behave like any satellite or aircraft I could conceive.