The following written confession was submitted via email:

So a family member of mine was on a flight to Hawaii from Georgia. She said they were over the Nevada deserts when she spotted the lights. She grabbed the videos and eventually lost sight of them. She never figured out what they were. It is interesting that they continue to shine even when they seem to be under the clouds. If it was reflection I assume at some point the angle of light would have changed, and she would have been able to identify what it was. But she said they just continued to illuminate as they are shown in the videos the entire time she watched them.