* Very large, luminous, plasma-like light with a golden, yellow-orange color. When first observed, it was enormous—slightly smaller than, but comparable to the width and height of the mansion in the foreground (approximately 120 feet wide and 35 feet tall?). It was far behind the mansion, indicating substantial size. After going inside to get my phone, the object was much smaller, continuing to steadily shrink until it disappeared. It was changing shape, but kept going back to this bat-shape, almost like a sloppy Bat-Signal from Batman. It was flashing all over the place and was not clearly defined.
* It moved slowly and smoothly toward the northwest.
* Approximately five minutes.
* Yes, my father.
* Clear, calm and cloudless, nighttime.
* Just extremely curious, going thru every possibility in my head. Afterward, I searched online for possible explanations (rocket launches, fireworks) found nothing.