I was walking out to my storage building at around 1 AM last night to look for some wires (I can't sleep at night and I find working in the garage at night much more comfortable than during the day). I had a smaller flashlight that is about a 200 lumen model. I shined my light up and over my building to see of anything was in the trees. Right behind my building there is a 60 ft pine and a 20 foot tall persimmon tree. About 20 feet up, I see 2 dark yellow/gold eyes staring back at me. I was 40 yards away and at first I thought it was my yellow cat named Jack. I called for Jack as I walked closer and at about 30 yards, the animal came down the tree in a hurry. At that point my blood ran cold because I saw an animal at least as big as a bobcat, with a long straight thick tail and brown fur jump down from 20 feet high in 3 hops. I backed away slowly with my flashlight on the area. It vanished without as much as a twig breaking. I want to add that the whole 60 ft pine tree was shaking as it jumped down. I made fun of my nephew when he told us he saw a mountain lion a couple of years ago while riding a 4 wheeler, but that was during the daylight at the edge of an open field. In my head, there are only three or four options that explain all of the things I saw. One is a big coon that I didn't see the stripes on the tail because it was moving too fast. Another is a big house cat like a giant 30 + pounder, but they usually stay treed or come down slowly if you spook them. Third is a fox that was trying to get to the persimmons, but I have never seen a fox climb like that and it would have been a big fox. The fourth was a juvenile mountain lion, a 40-50 lbs one. About 10 minutes after this happened, my neighbors dogs went crazy up the way it ran off. About and hour later, I heard a fox screaming but it was down in the field in the opposite direction. I live west of Eton, Ga by about 7 miles or so.