Judy Wolcott
Judy Wolcott was a woman who approached UFO researcher Don Schmidt claiming that her husband, a Vietnam-era military officer, had written to her describing his presence at the 1953 Kingman, Arizona Crash Retrieval, where non-human biologics were allegedly recovered. Wolcott claimed her husband had been killed in action during the Vietnam War.
| Role | False claimant; alleged witness by proxy |
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Author Nick Redfern subsequently investigated and exposed Wolcott's account as fabricated. Her husband had not died in Vietnam as claimed, multiple details of her story did not withstand scrutiny, and her own daughter confirmed that Wolcott frequently invented stories. Whether the fabrication was self-motivated (a desire for attention or recognition) or represented deliberate disinformation introduced into the Kingman research community is unknown.
Wolcott's case is cited in discussions of the Kingman evidence as an example of the false witness problem in UAP crash retrieval research — where the entry of fabricated testimony into a case can cloud the evidentiary picture around otherwise credible witnesses like Arthur Stansel Jr. and Bill Uhouse.