Thunder Anthony Gott, 28, of the Swan River area of Manitoba was reported missing to his adoptive mother on December 29, 2022 after family lost contact following Christmas Day. Early reports said he was last seen in the early hours of December 26, 2022 on Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation wearing a light green Columbia jacket, grey hooded sweatshirt, black pants and black boots.

Swan River RCMP later updated the timeline with a confirmed sighting placing Thunder walking along Highway 10 about half a kilometre north of Birch River in the mid-morning of January 3, 2023. That sighting described different clothing: a light-coloured spring jacket, a grey toque and running shoes. Family, volunteers and Sapotaweyak Cree Nation leadership searched farmland and woods by vehicle, snowmobile and helicopter but found no trace.

Thunder had collected a paycheck on December 23, spent Christmas Eve at home in Shoal River and left on Christmas Day; contact ceased afterward and the missing-person report followed four days later. Does anyone who was traveling Highway 10 near Birch River on January 3 have information that could help locate Thunder?