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Did you say "spiraling"?   YES, YES!  That's what this looked like; like a spiral staircase of lights.
There were many smaller ones that you can't see in the picture.
I hope someone can help me "clean up" the grain so maybe they can be seen more clearly...

Yes they 'spiralled' up up into the moving clouds, couldn't be seen for about a minute and then one-to-two
seen fleetingly against the late-afternoon sky in a gap of the clouds.

I'll take a look at cleaning up the image tonight (UK time).