HYANNISTAN, Mass. — The three Afghan military officers who went missing during a training exercise on Cape Cod have been found by authorities, after motorists reported them being seen squatting alongside a roadway just staring at passing cars, Duffel Blog has learned.

"Numerous motorists reported to the State Police there were a group of men squatting alongside the road for hours," said spokesman Col. Sean O'Brien of the Mass. State Police, who also noted one witness claiming that one of the Afghans had dug a slit trench along Route 6 to relieve himself.

The disappearance of Maj. Jan Mohammed Arash, Capt. Mohammed Nasir Askarzada, and Capt. Noorullah Aminy set off a state-wide manhunt, sources confirmed. The trio were eventually picked up near the Canadian border in a stolen vehicle, which authorities thought suspicious since it had jingling metal and other trinkets attached all around its sides.