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Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology.
A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns.
His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors.
Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies.
Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

Crashworthy seats for U.S. military helicopters sit on the floor of the Martin-Baker America facility in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (The Washington Times)

Inside the art of making, maintaining ejection seats for U.S. military jets

It's a story partly defined by cold, hard numbers and uncompromising precision. More than 1,000 separate components make up the F-35 fighter jet's ejection seat. Seat belts for some ejection and crashworthy seats contain more than 100 pieces. Disassembling and rebuilding the F-35 seat, which weighs more than 200 pounds, takes more than 100 hours.

October 8, 2026
The image from video provided by the Department of Defense shows an unexplained object as it is tracked high in the clouds, traveling against the wind. There's a whole fleet of them, one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. It's rotating." The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and an official report was released in June 2021. (Department of Defense via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon: Military reports recent sightings of UFOs in Mideast

U.S. troops reported seeing an unidentified flying object in Middle Eastern skies in late 2024 and another last year, including an incident in which video footage shows "six small spherical objects" rapidly changing direction and moving at nearly 500 mph.

September 18, 2026