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Another option would be to install Stellarium on your PC, you can then set your location in it's settings, adjust the observation date and time to match when you saw whatever it was, and have a look at what might have been visible at that time. As others have said, anything low in the SSW at 8:30PM will not be higher in the west at 1AM. If it is close enough to the pole that it does not set, it will rotate around the to be more toward the SSE as the night goes on. It might be two different objects.
I can't comment on anything visually elongated, individual stars are really pinpoints visually, even in a telescope.
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