Garage Door Opener Parts Strange Happenings
A series of automatic garage door openers in Sarpy County malfunctioned over the past few days and some residents are suspecting that Offutt Air Force Base is responsible.
“It didn’t work,” said Terry Labedz. “Nothing happened. Nada.”
Her garage door opener is working now, but it was out for most of the week.
Many people in Sarpy County reported their doors weren’t opening. Labedz charged her battery and called the manufacturer and a local repair service.
“This has been an ongoing problem for several years,” said Lee Pounds of Norm’s Door Service. “We may go through six months where nothing occurs and then we go through a time when everybody is affected.”
Pounds said the problem is that something or someone occasionally broadcasts a signal that overpowers the openers. He suspects the signal comes from Offutt Air Force Base.
“Because of the strength of the signal Offutt is beaming out, it’s going to negate your garage door systems, rendering them ineffective,” Pounds said.
Offutt didn’t comment on the situation, but Labedz thinks Pounds might be right. When she called the base and asked, she said the person who answered suggested several repairmen who would understand her problem. She said the people on the base were polite, but didn’t explain the source of the problem.
“I think the problem is Offutt,” she said.
Labedz has lived in Bellevue for decades and knows that the interference that blocked her opener may come back. Still, she said she’s pleased to have the base as a neighbor.
“I love hearing those planes go over,” she said. “I love our military. They have to do what they have to do.”
Offutt told KETV NewsWatch 7 that it was investigating whether the base was the source of the signal and that the wing commander is always concerned if base activities affect the community.
Several other experts said that the federal government controls all radio frequencies and can do whatever it wants with them.
This has nothing to do with the Garage Door Mystery in Virgina.
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