Identified Aerial Phenomenon

I was driving back through the night from a shift at work today when, somewhat to the south and west, I seemed to notice an odd, orangish, vertically elongated light in the sky for just a moment. Wondering just what it was, I kept driving, and then I got to thinking how things had become embroidered about different "lights in the sky" so as to help produce interstellar spacecraft from them... and then clouds I hadn't noticed before kept shifting, and I realised the light had been the crescent moon. I don't know what I would have wound up wondering what else the light could have been had the clouds not kept moving, but it's good to have some certainty.