On a very clear night I walked out on my balcony and noticed the Moon looks very strange

On a very clear night I walked out onto my balcony about a half a block up from the beach and I noticed the Moon looked strange and it was actually a bit bigger than a basketball floating above the apartment building next door approximately 40 feet away from me.
I sat and looked at it and amazement and then I noticed that the light it was emitting was a little bit strange and was not coming from space but more like from a streetlight that you get that type of effect from.
Saying how I am not completely crazy I figured this just must have been a visual illusion and about that time my landlord son locked out and I called him up on my balcony and he saw the exact same thing.
I've never really thought about it much until recently When the UFO nimitz files came out because this was happening all out in my backyard at this time.so did I witness some type of probe watching us ?