An update about possible new leads as to where an Alzheimer’s patient that went missing from his home in Presque Isle county more than 2 weeks ago.

Family of 70-year-old Andrew Haight says they believe he may have been spotted more than 280 miles from his home.

Search crews spent several days looking for Haight near his home and found nothing.

But his family is not giving up hope.

"We're devastated.  We need closure.  We need to find him,” said Haight’s daughter Angela Mathes.

Inside her Flint home, Angela Mathes sits by her phone waiting and hoping.  It was back on August 29th when her father, 70-year-old Andrew Haight, who has Alzheimers and dementia, walked off from his home in Millersburg and hasn't been seen since.  Facebook pleas, Craigslist ads, and several searches involving several people around the home have come up with nothing.  Bloodhounds that had his scent and lost it near a cornfield.

"We assume, well we think, that he was actually picked up by somebody near that cornfield where they lost the scent, and possibly could have been driven downstate," said Haight.

Last week, State Police received a tip Haight had been sighted near Port Huron, more than 250 miles away.  On Monday, the family received even more hope.

"A TV station in Detroit actually broadcast that he was missing, and come to find out, someone saw that on TV around 6 at night, and swears at 4-o-clock in the afternoon my father was actually standing on her front porch and had knocked on the door," said Mathes.

"I said 'oh my God!, that's the man that knocked on my door,'” said Esther Roberts, who says she saw Haight.

Esther Roberts lives more than 280 miles away from Millersburg in Warren, in this home, just off of 8 mile.  She called Angela.

“He looked very tired, tired, and kind of lost, looking like he didn't know where he was at," said Roberts.

"She described my father to the 'T,' and that's why we're holding out hope that he actually is still ok.  It blows our mind that he got that far, and to have somebody say they actually saw him, that's hope, that's more than we've had for the past week and a half," said Mathes.

The hope is there and Mathes says she's staying conservative, saying she's giving it a 50-50 shot it actually was him, because by the time the police had showed up, Haight was gone again.

As the search continues for Haight, they hope closure, a good closure, is near.

If you have any information, contact Michigan State Police (989)734-2204 or Onaway Police (989)733-7755