null issue?

Unity Engine
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How is this possible? I set break points to figure this out. If the object is NOT null, jump in to the IF statement. So the break point jumped into it and stopped. But when I I inspect the object you can see in the photo that it is ‘null’?

I set the GameObject variable in the global area.

GameObject redArrowObject;

Here is the whole method and the redArrowObject is not found anywhere else in the script.

    void LateUpdate(){
        if(redArrowObject != null){
            redArrowObject.transform.position = new Vector3(Camera.main.transform.position.x, 300f,0f);
        }
        if(arrowOnScreen && !redArrowObject){
            redArrowObject = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("redArrow").transform.GetChild(0).gameObject;
            redArrowObject.transform.position = new Vector3(Camera.main.transform.position.x, 300f,0f);
        }
    }

What I am trying to do is get a reference to the GameObject so I am not calling it Find function every time.

I’m stumped???

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Usually, you use the FindGameObject… in the Start() method. Then you have it before the update starts.