I was home alone on September 1, 2009 when I heard something on my roof. I live in a one story house with a garage and partial basement below, built into the side of a hill. Very secluded and wooded with a pond in the backyard. There is no way that this could be lights from a vehicle in the neighborhood, because there are none, no neighborhood except maybe 1,000 feet away through the woods there are other houses, but no way to see lights on my back porch umbrella, which is where I saw them. I was scared because I knew that it was something unheard of. It landed like a big clunk on my roof. I was coming out of the bedroom from putting my pajamas on and it landed directly over my bedroom/kitchen area. They are next to each other. I went back in the bedroom and looked out of my bedroom window which faces east and is over the garage. There was nothing there. Then I went to the kitchen window and looked out. On my large umbrella, which was on my porch in the back of the house, I saw lights going around so that it made the umbrella appear to be twirling around, and very bright. I was unsure what was going on until after it was all over. There was no noise, absolute silence. I was so scared that I called the police to come out and see if it was still there. It had to be reasonably small because my house has an antennae on one side and a pipe for the bathroom on the other side. My house is only 1,100 sq. feet. The police came out with flashlights and their car lights, and I turned on the porch flood light too, but it was gone, thankfully. I noticed some days later that all of my gas equipment was empty, a generator, lawnmower, leaf blower and snow blower. All empty. Also, peculiar as it was, but a 100 foot extension cord and a rope were wrapped very tightly in small loops separately. The extension cord was in the garage on the floor and the rope was over on the wall in the garage and both had been arranged in small loops. Go figure. Also, the car washers for my Prius didn't work. It appeared to be empty too, but it was over half full when I checked it. It started working when I checked the fluid level. Go figure that. Later that night I called my friend about 70 miles away and she had another friend over who got a phone call from her son telling her she should see the lights over Sand Lake. They were moving at unbelieveable speeds. Sand Lake is about 55 miles from me. This was all in the same night. I didn't know you guys existed or I would have gotten ahold of you sooner. Then about a month later, the police called me and wanted to know if I would talk to somebody in New York City named Daryl Pitt about what I had seen. He is a "meteor tracker" and said that meteors were in the area that night. I waited for his call which came a few minutes later, and I told him this was no meteor, but a UFO. He agreed with me.