North Dakota emergency officials issued a Silver Alert on Thursday for an 88-year-old Minot man reported missing, according to an IPAWS Civil Emergency Message from the State of North Dakota¹.

The alert, sent at 1:22 p.m. EST Thursday and rated Extreme, Immediate and Observed, said the North Dakota Highway Patrol and the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation issued it at the request of the Minot Police Department¹. It was set to expire one hour later, at 2:22 p.m. EST¹.

Officials identified the man as Willard Reichenberger of Minot, described as a white male, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 195 pounds, with black and gray hair and hazel eyes^1,4. The message said he was last known to be in Minot at 10 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2026, believed to be driving a silver 2018 Honda CR-V with North Dakota license 367EEJ, and last seen wearing a blue jacket, white T-shirt, jeans and possibly no shoes^1,4.

Anyone with information was asked to contact the Minot Police Department at 701-852-0111^1,4. The state said the same information was available by calling 511 and at ndresponse.gov/alert¹. Valley News Live and KFYR reported the same description, vehicle and phone number and did not say whether he had been found⁴.

The State of North Dakota sent a second IPAWS Civil Emergency Message labeled Silver Alert at 1:24 p.m. EST Thursday, also rated Extreme, Immediate and Observed and covering North Dakota, set to expire at 2:24 p.m. EST². That retransmission as received carried no message text and did not name a missing person, vehicle or contact number².

The National Weather Service office in Bismarck issued a Civil Emergency Message at 12:31 p.m. CST Thursday transmitting the Silver Alert at the request of the North Dakota Highway Patrol³. The NWS product listed every North Dakota county³.