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A street in a Staffordshire town has been dubbed the Twilight Zone by motorists who have found their electronic key fobs to lock their cars blacked out.
People parking in Stafford Street, Eccleshall, are getting locked out of the cars or can't set their alarms because of the phenomenon.
No cause has yet been found, although local residents suggest transmissions from some nearby source may be blocking the signals.
Last week, NATO workers erected security and communications towers in the area in advance of this week's defense ministers' conference.
By 9 a.m. Friday morning, all 10 lines at Overhead Door Company of Colorado Springs were lit up with calls from the Broadmoor and the nearby town of Security complaining that their garage- door openers had jammed.
More than 400 calls from frantic, frustrated and flustered residents came on that day alone. They haven't stopped since, said the company's receptionist, Tina Oetken.