strange TV remote control problems

I have two remote controls that control my TV, DVD player, Stereo, etc. Last nite one of the remotes stopped working. I picked up the other one, and it didn´t work either. I thought it was strange that the batteries would die in both remotes at the same time, but I replaced them in both remotes. They still didn´t work. I then put the original batteries back into both of them. They still didn´t work. I got up and tried both of them within a foot of the TV. Both of them worked! I thought that was pretty strange, so I controlled the TV manually the rest of the nite. The next day both remotes worked normally! I live about five miles north of MCAS Miramar near San Diego and there were a lot of planes in the air last nite. Something must have been jamming the IR signal coming from the remote controls. Anybody have any ideas as to what it might have been? Could the CME have done it?