Jarno Smeets and His Flight are Fake

For a few days man could fly. Or at least many thought so.

The world's press was fooled into believing the story of Jarno Smeets, and his claim that he had made custom wings, which enabled him to fly.

Floris Kaayk, now admits that he pretended to be Smeets and faked the flight in an online storytelling experiment. He had stood by the original story until the video was proven to be fake. After that his story started falling apart as deeper investigations were done.

Experts at George Lucas's Industrial Lights and Magic were involved in the take down of the video.

Kaayk faked not just the video, flight, and his name; but also created an entire background for his Smeets character, to make him seem real. Investigators found that the companies and university that he stated he had worked for and studied at, had no knowledge of any such person.

Charges of fraud are being considered against Kaayk. Though what success any would have, are unknown as Kaayk did not take any money nor harm anyone.