Air Force blamed after garage doors go haywire

Neighbors say it's open-and-shut case

By TOM ROEDER THE GAZETTE

Air Force Space Command has declared a cease-fire in the latest battle for military control of the region's garage doors.

Top commanders think a new radio transmitter installed at the secretive underground Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station attacked hundreds of automatic garage door openers in southern Colorado Springs with devastating and unexpected results.

The Air Force began testing the transmitter, used for hand-held radios, Tuesday, the same day hundreds of remote control openers as far away as Widefield ceased to work. The Air Force isn't admitting a role in the saga, but when the transmitter was shut down Thursday
afternoon, the garage doors returned to normal.