Dancing Orange and red star

As a looked up at the sky my eyes were immediately drawn to a bright orange/red star.  At first it just looked like a star.  I had to look closely and use a vantage point(power lines) and other stars to see that it was moving around in a jerky/ bouncy way. It would split in two and reform into one. A smaller but very bright red light formed just under it then it would just be the bright orange light again.  The light color would change to white blue and green. It was hard to make out what was going on.  I wish I could have zoomed in or had a telescope to help me see it because it seemed like there was a lot of activity, but it it was too far away for me to see specifically what was happening.