Book: Strangers

Just got through reading this book a few days ago. Good book! It's about something that some people saw one night in Elko Nevada. They didn't know what they had saw that night because the government had abducted them just afterwards and brainwashed them by implanting false memories of that night. They were given memories that were of an ordinary day in the Tranquility Motel. Unfortunately for the government, the brainwashing slowly developed holes and they slowly but surely started remembering. Some were having fugues where they went in to a trance and wigged-out and ran, only to wake-up not knowing why they ended up where they were or why. Others became obsessed with images, like the moon. Others got weird red, raised circle-scars on their palms whenever they saw, heard, or felt something strange happening, only to find out they had special powers like telekinesis, healing abilities, etc. These abilities and circles weren't from the government, but from something they had touched but had no recollection of touching. In the end they all found out that what they had seen was a space ship. Those with the abilities had been in the ship and touched the top of the suspended animation capsule that had a dying alien in it. Because the alien knew it was about to die, he put his hands up against the top of the capsule when the others touched it and passed on the powers to those people. He wanted, and did, complete the mission that took 30,000 years of space travel to accomplish. Unfortunately, because all the occupants in the ship died, they couldn't send/get a report back to their home to let them know. Of course the government didn't know how these people got their powers and assumed the aliens had somehow possessed them and wanted to keep the world safe from further possession by keeping it all a secret. Rambleman