TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8909 SUBJECT: Swift Trigger 343319 is not a GRB DATE: 09/02/19 17:06:42 GMT FROM: David Palmer at LANL D. N. Burrows (PSU), M. M. Chester (PSU), P. A. Evans (U Leicester), H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA), V. Mangano (INAF-IASFPA), J. Mao (INAF-OAB), C. B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD), P. T. O'Brien (U Leicester), K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL), A. M. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (NASA/UMBC), P. Schady (MSSL-UCL), M. Stamatikos (NASA/ORAU), G. Stratta (ASDC), M. C. Stroh (PSU), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), E. Troja (INAF-IASFPA) and T. N. Ukwatta (GSFC/GWU) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 16:48 UT, Swift lost star tracker lock, leading to a false trigger due to a misidentification of Cygnus X-1 (trigger #343319). This is not a GRB. Recovery operations are underway. There may be further false triggers in the next few minutes.