I live out in the country and i work nights so when i step out at night to smoke i see a star filled sky. i had just woken up about twenty minutes before. i stepped onto my back porch to begin smoking a cigarette when i noticed a very bright object in the sky. there was fast moving clouds beneath it and a breeze so at first i thought the object wasn't moving and that it was optical illusion due to the moving clouds. however, once the clouds moved away this bright object was moving in the opposite direction, now passing by what few stars i could see in this early evening. i stared and watched as it traveled sw and then it just faded out, ruling out that it could be a plane, that and it had no aviation lights.