W. C. Levengood

William C. Levengood (1930s-2018) was an American biophysicist and crop circle researcher. Educated at the University of Toledo (B.S. Physics and Mathematics, 1957), Ball State University (M.A. Bioscience, 1961), and University of Michigan (M.S. Biophysics, 1970), he worked as a research physicist at the University of Michigan's Institute of Science & Technology and Department of Natural Resources from 1961-1970. In 1990, after viewing a television program on crop circles, Levengood began analyzing plant samples from crop formations, establishing the BLT Research Team with John A. Burke and Nancy Talbott in 1992. He proposed that crop circles resulted from electromagnetic radiation or plasma vortexes causing plant superheating and cellular changes. Levengood published peer-reviewed papers on crop circle anomalies and developed patented Molecular Impulse Response technology for accelerating crop growth. His work, while controversial and never independently confirmed, remains cited in crop circle research literature.