Berlin ? The major who disappeared in Kyrgyzstan during a shopping trip and then reappeared three days later is being debriefed at a military hospital in Germany, officials said Wednesday.

Air Force Maj. Jill Metzger was flown out of the former Soviet republic within a few hours of her reappearance and was admitted Sunday to the U.S. military’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

Metzger was stationed at the U.S. base in Manas outside the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek when she disappeared Sept. 5. She resurfaced Sept. 8 when she knocked on the door of a house in Kant, about 15 miles outside Bishkek, and claimed she had been kidnapped.

Metzger told investigators an object with a note saying it was a bomb was placed in her pocket in a department store and that she was kidnapped after following the note’s instructions.