The Fourth Dimension

It was night.

Niranjan came out of his room and stood outside. He inhaled and enjoyed the pleasant wind blowing across the open ground opposite.When he fortuitously looked up, he eyes were riveted to what he saw. what was that?

Two legs were dangling in mid-space! To confirm what he saw his eyes went up again-he could see the two legs again. He was scared now.

Mustering some courage he asked,

"Who is that?"

No response.

"Who is that?" he asked again.

Now it appeared someone was watching him from there.There was a gesture towards him and whisk! He was abruptly pulled up floating as if on an escalator!

Niranjan was severly jolted and looked around the place he arrived. It was a circular shape with lights on inside.

"Welcome" some one sitting in there ushered him. He looked unlike a human being with a slightly different features.

"What is this?"

"This one? Take it as a small floating body"

"Who are you?'

"I am from bennot planet. My name is Ramse"

"What? Bennot planet? So you are not from our planet. KIndly leave me. I am leaving"

"Dont be afraid. I wont do anything to you"

"What you expect me to do? How I can be without fear? When I called you from down there you might have come down. Instead you have whisked me up abruptly"

"I can't come down. I am in the fourth dimension"

"Fourth dimension?'

"Yes. The fourth dimension. You are in three dimensional world. This fourth dimension is invisible to you"

"What are you doing sitting in this?"

Niranjan looked around the place he was in. It was a circular shaped structure with some instruments inside

"You said it is a floating body. There are instruments too"

"This is a small flying saucer. I am collecting energy from here"

"Energy? Petrol, coal, natural gas-of these what is the form of the energy you collect?"

"None of these, your name ....?"

"Niranjan"

"Look here Niranjan.You belong to the three dimensional world. How many forms of energy you know ?"

"Energy? There are lot of forms of energy. If we consider an energy daily we are using then it is solar energy, electrical energy or electricity, ocean-thermal energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, nuclear energy ... so on. Am I right?"

"Perfectly right.You seem to be well informed about the forms of energy. Even then you know only about the energy in the three dimensional world. I am telling about the fourth dimensional energy.I am collecting this and taking it to our planet"

"What is that energy?"

"You can't decipher if i tell. This is coming from outer space. Since it is unused it has accumulated in huge quantities around your Earth"

"That means you are swindling our Earth bundles and bundles of energy, right?"

"Bundles and bundles of energy? No. Swindling? Not that either. How can we bundle the energy? It is just like the age-old fossils trapped deep underneath in the earth forming oil and coal. The energy coming from the outer space also accumulates in a collectible form around the earth. We have fuel shortage in our planet. Therefore we take this to our planet to make up our deficit. Anway you know nothing of this fourth dimensional energy. If we dont touch it will go unused and wasted"

"I cant make out anything from what you say"

"Your Earth has no danger because of this, will that suffice?"

"Leave it aside for a moment. You were in the invisible fourth dimension. Then how come you came into my view?"

"Oh,that! My foot slipped a little and my legs alone shifted into the third dimension. When I was like that for sometime you sighted me. Since you called me I thought of meeting you and brought you up here"

"Have you come alone?"

"There are four others besides me. All of us came in the same space ship. We have stationed it at a place and each one has come flying in a seperate mini flying saucer."

"All of you are in the same invisible fourth dimension?"

"Yeah, that is right"

"Good fourth dimension!

"

""Are You coming to our planet?"

"Now?"

"Tomorrow. We are leaving tomorrow only."

"Let me think about it"

"Take your time. We shall come to this place tomorrow. If you are coming we shall take you. What your are doing in the day time?"

"There is a place called office. I am going there"

"Supposing you are coming with us will anybody search for you?'

"I have to come only after making arrangements for that. Then no one will search. Besides I am single. Unencumbered. Ok. shall I take leave?"

"Don't tell any body about seeing me and tell what you have heard from me. They won't understand anything"

"Who is going to believe that anyway? Ok. let me leave. Get me down to the ground"

He made Niranjan to stand on a circular pad and turned the wheel in the instrument panel slowly , the belly of the saucer opened expelling Niranjan out. He slowly descended floating, floating and floating and landed on the ground.

On reaching the ground he waved up.

Ramse seemed to wave back. Then nothing could be seen. He must have moved off.

"How he was pulled up and pushed down? He couldn't understand the mechanism of it. Niranjan spent a sleepless night thinking about the happenings.

The next morning. He was still wondering whether to tell anybody what he had seen the night before. No body would believe anyway. Nevertheless it occurred to him that the extra terrestrials are robbing the Earth of a precious energy source. How at all he could allow that to go on? He should go to the space centre and inform the people over there. He connected to his office through terminal applied for leave, locked his room and left for the space centre.

When he said flying saucer in the space centre they looked at him non-chalantly,

"UFO section. You inform there" they directed.

UFO or such silly thngs. No body bothered or believed these days.In fact no one gives a damn about it.

With these thoughts he approached the UFO section.

They made a note of the sighting, date, time in the UFO section and said he can leave. Had he come just to give this information?

"I not only sighted a flying saucer I saw one from another planet and had a talk with him"

When he said that they asked him to remain and asked him to go to another section.If it was a still more special experience he had to go there.

He broached the matter of having spoken to the bennot planet man in the special section. When he informed that the bennot blokes are collecting the energy accumulated around earth in the fourth dimension the woman in the reception made a call over inercom. Whether he had to go to another section?

"I informed that your experience is very special to UFO research director. He is interested in hearing what you have to say about that fourth dimensional thing. You can go and meet him directly”

In a glass partiioned separate room was seated a guy behind a gigantic desk in a swivel chair. The UFO research director was a balding yet a youthful looking specky guy.

He asked him to seat on a chair in front of his desk. He eyed at him as if asking him to begin.

He recounted his experience starting from the sighting of dangling legs in mid space. He withheld the offer to take him to the bennot planet.

"This fourth dimensional bit is already an area under research here. Even there is speculation that farther off galaxies are placed very very near in this fourth dimension"

"Then we can't use this fourth dimensional energy?"

"Don't get excited. Have I not told it is speculation. There ends our knowledge. Our knowledge is a very big zero beyond that. It is incomprehensible to us as to what could it be. When matters stand stay that way, we can't imagine entering the fourth dimension and collecting the energy from there at all"

"Then why did you called me in?"

"The fourth dimensional energy is new to me. That's why I called you to know what it is"

"So you can't prevent the energy around earth from being taken to another planet"

"I am afraid that is the case. Anyway the people you saw are operating out of sight to us. It is indeed amazing that you have sighted them. We are not in a position to use the energy they are taking from here. As of now, I can say only that much"

"Yeah, what else you can do? At best you can write a research paper on that" saying this he came out.

After returning to his room, he was lost in thought the whole day. The blokes over here dont even know what was fourth dimension was Why not he accept the offer of the Bennot people to take him with them? He could learn new things and gain new experience through them. If possible he could come back to earth and implement here what he learnt from them.

That Night.

When Ramse came to the same spot as the night before and called him he embarked on the journey with them.

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Mohan Sanjeevan