[astrovilla (Peter)]

I was out stargazing on Wednesday night between 7-8.30pm, I was looking at Spica/ Saturn with my Canon 15x50 image stabilizer binoculars,when I noticed a rather bright item at 275deg NW at about 60deg above the horizon,it at first I thought it was a comet,it had a odd shape but it looked like it had a bright nose followed by a gas looking cloudy tail.I watched this amazing thing for up to 1/2hr,during this time the so called comet changed shape and started to slowly fade??
I kept watching unsure of what it was I was watching,about 1/2 way through the viewing its shape changed into what looked like a tornado on its side because it had a funnel shape to it,all the time it was also fading in brightness,till it became a faint smudge but still maintained the funnel shape till it faded and was washed out by the near full moon. What did i see that night,it was amazing and same time weird, did any one else se the same thing...help please???