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A Satellite moving into darkness will blink out like that. I think that might have been what happened at the end of this, they all drifted into the Earths shadow.

Last night I saw this strange object I can't explain. The story and images I captured are below. It was some sort of satellite that "broke up" this might have been by design. The images are poor because I was using the shutter button to take the images and had a Bahtinov bask on the scope. Waiting to polar align last night, I was my focus mask on the telescope the tracking was turned on, cameras on and plugged in, sky still in twilight and only the moon visible. I look over at the moon and see a bright star, this was unexpected but thought I could focus the camera now and then polar align when done. I started aiming toward the star and looking through the finder I thought it had an odd shape and noted I need to focus it when I had a chance. I centered the star and turned the camera on (DSLR) I centered the "star" in the finder and noted that my rough polar alignment was poor because this star was drifting quickly. I tried to focus but the shape was off and I couldn't get good spike off the "star" with my Bahtinov focus mask. Suddenly trails of stars started to trail behind the object. At first I thought it was a problem with the camera, none of it was making sense in the moment, everything happening was not expected or normal. At about this point it all came together and it dawn on me this was something orbital and it was shedding something. I looked up and the "star" was starting to dim and no trail was visible. I just started to take photo's with the shutter button just to get a few images. The main satellite continued on and is the brightest speck leaving this odd trail strewn behind it, the first part of the tail had the most dense cloud of objects with the number of objects becoming fewer as the "core" moved on. I have not idea what this was. The shape and range was not Starlink as the pieces are scattered not in the typical Startlink line of satellites. Also there was no Starlink launch and the number of pieces is well about the 50 or so a Starlink launch puts in oribit. This also doesn't seem to be the Russian satellite that disintegrated a couple days ago either as it seemed to fall apart in front of my eyes. Now as this was happening as I watched. This happened around three degrees east of the moon at about 42.48N and -81.11W and 8:48EDT. Any Ideas, 25 years of astronomy and astrophotography I've never seen anything in the sky I couldn't explain till last night.