UVM professor surveys residents on F-35 noise exposure

UVM professor surveys residents on F-35 noise exposure

One of the first two F-35 fighter jets arrives at the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington on September 19, 2019. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger This story by Jason Starr was first published in the Williston Observer on May 7, 2026. We have decibel data from Vermont Air National Guard F-35 flights out of Burlington International Airport, and we have anecdotes of people’s experience with the overpowering noise of the fighter …