Wellington boot thrown at drone before car park fracas during crop circle rage incident

An incident at a crop circle in Wiltshire last month turned violent when two of the phenomenon's most well-known faces ended up in a fracas in a car park because one threw a wellie at the other's drone camera. The event was caught on the victim's camera both in the air above the field and in the car park minutes later. It began when Gary King, who once claimed to have filmed a huge crop circle mysteriously appearing in a Wiltshire field in a matter of seconds, took exception to having his quiet moments in a crop circle near Devizes spoiled by a drone camera flying overhead. Mr King then grabbed one of the wellington boots he'd just slipped off to sit down, and flung it at the flying drone.



Later he confronted the man at the controls, Matthew Williams, who is one of the crop circle community's more controversial figures. Ironically, neither man knew the other's identity when the welly boot was thrown, but a fierce argument in the car park later ended with Williams the victim of assault, and King arrested and cautioned by police. Gary King eventually accepted a police caution after being arrested for common assault during the fracas in the car park near a Wiltshire crop formation with Matthew Williams. The row turned violent after Mr Williams flew a remote-controlled camera drone over a crop formation in a field at Monument Hill, near Devizes at the beginning of August. Mr King and another man were sitting in the crop formation at the time, and the 49-year-old from London grabbed his wellington boot, stood up and flung it at the drone – an action caught on the drone's own camera.




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The wellie missed its target and Mr Williams flew it away from the scene. Minutes later, Mr King approached Mr Williams in a nearby car park and the pair had a fierce argument, which Mr Williams also filmed. Mr Williams is one of the best-known and controversial crop circle researchers in Wiltshire. He remains the only person to be successfully prosecuted for criminal damage after making a crop circle, and was the first to 'break rank' and explain exactly how the formation are created. Mr King shot to prominence in the crop circle community after witnessing and filming what appeared to be the instant formation of a crop circle in the famous East Field in Alton Barnes back in July 2007. Crop circle enthusiasts even held a press conference and presented his evidence to the media after the film was thoroughly examined.


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After the row, the police were called and arrested Mr King before issuing him with a caution. A spokesman for Wiltshire police said: "We were called at around midday on August 4 to an altercation between two men at Monument Hill near Devizes. We arrested a 49-year-old male from Bradford-on-Avon on suspicion of common assault," he added. "He received a formal caution. The injured party was from the Devizes area." Mr King freely admitted to physically attacking Mr Williams, saying he was angry at the drone camera flying near him. He said Mr Williams displayed a 'fundamental disrespect for human safety' by flying the drone as he did. "I felt we were being intimidated. Coming from north London you get a smack in the mouth for that sort of behaviour. I kicked him in the nuts and chinned him and chinned him again. I knew exactly what I was doing and I was prepared to take any consequences for it," he said.