TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  17050
SUBJECT: Swift Trigger 618134 is not an astrophysical event
DATE:    14/11/10 03:54:09 GMT
FROM:    David Palmer at LANL  <palmer@lanl.gov>

S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), M. G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB),
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), D. M. Palmer (LANL) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL)
report on behalf of the Swift Team:

At 03:43:55 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered
while there was a star tracker loss of lock.  It mistakenly identified
Vela X-1 as a new source.