North Dakota Highway Patrol and the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation issued a Silver Alert on Sunday evening at the request of the Williams County Sheriff's Office for Randall Swenson of Grenora, North Dakota¹.

The IPAWS Civil Emergency Message, sent at 9:54 p.m. EST Sunday, was rated Extreme, Immediate and Observed¹. The state described Swenson as a 78-year-old white male, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 195 pounds, with gray hair and brown eyes, and called him a vulnerable adult¹.

The alert said his last known whereabouts were about 5 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2026, in Grenora, and that he was believed to be driving a 2015 white Chevrolet Tahoe with North Dakota plate RWS300¹. It said he was possibly wearing blue jeans, a baseball cap and glasses¹.

Anyone with information was asked to contact the Williams County Sheriff's Office at 701-577-7700¹. The notice said the same information was available by calling 511 and at ndresponse.gov/alert¹. A second IPAWS Silver Alert product at 9:55 p.m. EST carried no additional text. The first notice was listed to expire at 10:54 p.m. EST Sunday¹.

The National Weather Service office in Bismarck later issued a Civil Emergency Message at 9:17 p.m. CST, saying it was transmitting the Silver Alert at the Highway Patrol's request, with the same description, vehicle and contact number, and an expiration of 10:30 p.m. CST.

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1. 200447,State of North Dakota,NDDESSilver Alert9:54 PM

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