Lights around Venus

Hi all! I would like your knowledge about what we could have seen. The others thought that it must have been something mundane, but couldn't explain it either.

Time: 25 to 27 January. The footage of the video is shot between 22:50 and 23:00 of 27 January.

Location: Western Sahara, Morocco

In the nights from the 25th to the 27th of January we saw multiple lights appearing and disappearing around Venus. They didn't look different through binoculars. The appearance of the lights was pretty frequent, but not something you could pinpoint with time.

They only appeared around Venus. Sometimes on the left side going right, sometimes on the right side going left, sometimes going slightly upwards and sometimes going slightly down. Due to the movement in different directions, we excluded Starlink from being a possibility. At one point we saw two lights next to Venus at the same time, but most of the time it was a single light.

Once Venus went down the horizon, the appearing and disappearing lights went out of view together with the planet.

Why would the visibility of satellites be confined around Venus? Thank you in advance for your answers!