35 years later and they got their man.

"Hughes said that in 1983 he was depressed about being in the Air Force, so he left, made up his new name and life as O’Beirne, and lived in California ever since"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news..../us/an-air-force-cap

An Air Force captain with top secret security clearance vanished. He resurfaced 35 years later
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An Air Force captain with top secret security clearance vanished. He resurfaced 35 years later

Former Air Force Capt. William Howard Hughes Jr. disappeared in 1983, and resurfaced in 2018 but the exact details for why he did so are still unknown.