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Not recent, but in 2007 a B-52 took off with six AGM-129 cruise missiles. [1] All were recovered. The root cause:

"A later investigation found that the reason for the error was that the electronic production system for tracking the missiles 'had been subverted in favor of an informal process that did not identify the pylon as prepared for the flight.'"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

This sounds like the 2007 incident[0], but the Wikipedia article doesn't say anything about one going missing. That sounds like the sort of thing that would get added as part of the regular mutation in story transmission, and would likely be pretty well-documented if it were true.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...

or it could be actively suppressed:

[0] http://911blogger.com/news/2007-09-09/nuke-flight-major-issu...

By the lizard people, naturally.

There's this thing called a checklist? might want to get a few, they're kind of a big deal.

Did they land with a USAF major missing as well?

He wasn't supposed to wear a cowboy hat...