TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16630 SUBJECT: GRB 140723A: LCO-Sutherland optical candidate retraction DATE: 14/07/24 13:53:49 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy C. Guidorzi, S. Dichiara (U. Ferrara), C.G. Mundell (LJMU) on behalf of a large collaboration report: From the analysis of the finally reduced frames we retract the uncatalogued source reported in our previous message (GCN Circ. 16627) as the possible optical afterglow candidate to GRB 140723A. The source turned out to be not real. We apologise for the confusion.