I totally agree with you, but I thought it was Venus, too, until it never moved one night. The constellation of Orion passed right over it and it never moved, from nightfall to sunrise.
The next night it was gone. Gone. Clear sky. Nowhere to be found. Gone.
The night after that it was back but more west of me.
I don't know where it is tonight, however I did look when I came home.
Maybe Venus learned to dance, who knows…