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PLAINFIELD, Vt. —

Police have found the 69-year-old man who went missing while he was training his hunting dogs.

Officers say Ellsworth Spear, of Newbury, is back home safe after he went missing on Thursday afternoon.

Spears was located on Friday after he emerged from the woods near Pigeon Pond in Groton. He told officials that he became disoriented in the woods on Thursday night before being able to find his way out.

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Spear had gone out with his dogs around 4:30 p.m. on Gore Road in Plainfield.

Officials say he told his wife he needed to get one of his dogs and was not heard from again.