James Atherton was a UFOlogist who wrote the book Among Us which Milton Ross gave to Max in the episode Missing. The gang discovered from the back book flap that Atherton lived in Marathon, TX in a geodesic dome, a structure Michael had had a vision of. In the episode 285 South, Michael “borrowed” Maria’s car with her in it and, with Max, Isabel and Liz following, headed out to see what mysteries the dome held. Atherton is described my Milton Ross as "A bit on the alternative side. Atherton had an underground following...never truly embraced by the mainstream, such that it is.”