Odd Flashes Of Light In Night Sky - What Are They?

So I don't know if it's just me, but have you ever been outside looking at the night sky and you see a flash of light out of the corner of your eye?

It reminds me of a camera flash.

I stare in the general location where I saw the flash and maybe 20 seconds later I see another one, but dead on in my vision.

Maybe another 30 seconds later I see another one.

The sky is perfectly clear and it's definitely not an airplane as their flashing lights usually happen every x amount of seconds.

These flashes are sporadic and don't follow a normal flight path. I usually see them between 1:00am and 5:00am in the morning.

I thought they might be satelites but why would a satellite have sporadic flashing lights? Don't satellites take a direct path?

These flashes show that the "craft" or whatever it is are first going north, the next flash is south, the next flash is west, then the next flash is north... Showing no direct path..

What could these be? Sometimes I see 3 flashes, sometimes I see 1, sometimes I see 5 or 10..

Any ideas?