sentences:  Steiger described "Star People" in his 1976 book on contactees as "humans who come from a special gene pool linked to visits by extraterrestrials".They claim to come into human lifeforms and suffer helplessness and total amnesia concerning their identity, origins and life-purpose.The awakening process claimed to be experienced is described as either a gradual series of realizations over time, or an abrupt and dramatic awakening of consciousness.