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December 7, 2006 by Vurdlak | Share  

Update: This illusion was phottoshopped! Stated by the artist. Dear users, I’m sorry for this post, I found out only few minutes ago it was edited on computer. You can read it on utrave.org forums.

Levitation, Hovering and Flying were quite popular illusion themes on this site in the past – especially few months ago. Today Michael Baird said: “I went canoing down the green river in Utah with my brother this summer and finally got all the pictures from everyone who went. My friend took this picture and didn’t realize how weird it looked until we opened it up. We have not altered this picture in any way. No photo shop or anything.” Can you solve it? I don’t believe he could have jumped so high unless he jumped off a higher rock, not visible in this picture. Or maybe he jumped off a rock that is seen in this photo, only that he jumped away from us (right and back). Any other solutions? Remember: flying mouse cursor and flying ship ? Moreover, you can find more here: levitating kids, flying car, kids having fun, flying police car

Flying Man Illusion

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37 Responses
  1. Anonymous says:

    It seem like just a force jump

  2. ***Zeina*** says:

    thats real cool!!! :o

  3. Anonymous says:

    he has to be jumping off a higher rock thats not in the picture.

  4. Zero says:

    You can see the black thingies in his hands. He’s doing something that involved vertical gliding. I’m SUCH a fun spoiler! :P

  5. Liberate says:

    He jumped off a plane. :P

  6. Anonymous says:

    i agree with zero
    he’s holding on to something thats not shown in the pic!

  7. Anonymous says:

    He’s gonna get wet :’( unless he’s got one of those power kites… What’s in his hands?

  8. Anonymous says:

    if he was doing something involving vertical gliding you would be able to see the reflection of it in the water. if you look down a the water all you see is a reflection of him. nothing else. theres still fun to be had ^_^

  9. Philipp Zimmermann says:

    It’s superman without his suit… that’s easy

  10. Anonymous says:

    i agree with zero

  11. Dasher says:

    It’s very clear from his shirt he’s falling down. Not much of an illusion. The only thing to possibly make someone think he was flying when they looked at this picture is the title.

    It looks like a guy about to get wet… it’s a guy about to get wet. What he jumped off of is the only mystery.

  12. Anonymous says:

    His shirt is lifted up, which means that he must be falling; therefore, he must have jumped from a higher point than the rock in the picture.

  13. Anonymous says:

    Zero, if he was gliding, there would be a bigger shadow for him. He must be jumping off a rock not in the pic.

  14. Anonymous says:

    Since I know the person that took the picture I can tell you with 100% certainty that it was photo shopped.

    Don’t believe everything you read on the net, kids.

  15. Anonymous says:

    yea zero, except youre not. look at the shadow.

  16. Tori says:

    I don’t care how he did it, I think its pretty funny. (If I had to guess, i would agree with Zero) Yes Zero, you ARE a fun spoiler. Still there are worse…

  17. David says:

    I think thats his hat in his hand.

  18. Anonymous says:

    You can look at the shadows and see that he couldn’t be back from the rock much. Also, to jump off a higher rock not in the picture he would have had to have a lot of horizontal, which looking at his body seems unlikely.

    Also, looking at his arms and feet, me must have been close to the climax. As far as the black things in his hands, i guess people usually do start hang-gliding from that hight over water and hanging vertical.

    -Salaam

  19. kzx says:

    Skydiving of some sort.

  20. Anonymous says:

    The Matrix has him

  21. Anonymous says:

    It was obviously cropped.
    take a closer look at the blue sky around the guy.

    good try Michael Baird

  22. Anonymous says:

    I think he’s holding on to a poer kite but the handles seem rather small!

  23. Anonymous says:

    this is really dumb, but not as bad as the one where the guy is holding the toy car.

  24. myqbrk says:

    (To Zero and Liberate) No shadows from a glider or parachute, though. I assume it’s just him jumping towards the camera and perspective messing with us.

  25. Anonymous says:

    saw much better stuff here…

    Uncle Larry, Bazzano BO , Italy

  26. Anonymous says:

    He’s doing some type og hang-gliding, bungee-jumping, anything – you can see the two black objects in his hand that probably are attached to some sort of parachute.

  27. Travis says:

    its obvious that he’s holding onto something

  28. Anonymous says:

    right can i just say people, that when you leave comments it might be an idea to read all the rest as well. the image has been photo shopped….read the other comments and also just look around the guy it’s a different colour just like that other comment said! holy jees people please!

  29. Anonymous says:

    not cool! no lies peeps!

  30. Anonymous says:

    amm…the shadow in the water isn’t even under him..since it’s a round spot it means the shadow should be right under him…or else if it’s in that position, it should be more stretched out

  31. Anonymous says:

    I agree with the first guy. He must have the force

  32. Joe says:

    i say remove this illusion since it’s been proven phony. Takes the fun out of it when the “trick” to an illusion is not your eyes, but something that actually is impossible without computer alteration.

  33. Anonymous says:

    everyone who did not get this illusion is stupit, for 4 reasons

    The shadow of him, and only him is in the water, nothing else is there.

    If he jumped off a higher cliff, his body would be more horizontal.

    His shirt is blown UP because of the wind, which means that he is falling down, straight down, which eleminates him jumping off a different cliff, because he would be horizontal, and the fact the he is power flying or something like that.

    This was edited by a computer!

    He jumped off the low cliff falling straight down.

    The computer took his body and moved it up higher to make an impossible action, looking like he actually jumped 3 feet. well anyway, this illusion has been officially figured out!

  34. Anonymous says:

    yo he holden on to a hang glider cause u see the things hes holind in his hand. also if u look on his right hand u can see a long thin cable that runs out of da picture..
    and u cant see tha hang glider cause the angle the picture was taken from hides the shadow of the hanglider out of the picture

  35. Anonymous says:

    teh rockk looks liek its talking. hahahah. this website is so fun

  36. Anonymous says:

    i am an amateur photographer. this could be a valid shot if you cot all of the angles and lighting right

  37. jess says:

    he obviously jumped off a higher cliff that’s out of view

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