Anyone else witness the celestial weirdness tonight?

Yes, my husband and I saw this strange light as well. It was completely stationary and looked like this gigantic flashlight or spotlight shining through this thin layer of clouds, haze, fog. As you described it just seemed to dissipate into thin air. The illumination from the light had this huge V shape. It was clear to us that this was not an airplane or helicopter. It had not colors. There were no clouds in the sky, so the halo, vapor or haze made no sense either. What was inexplicable was the way the light dissipated without the light moving away. It was just slowly dimming. We live in Northern Virginia and it happened Sept 19, 2009 at around 8:30PM.