TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 16254 SUBJECT: Swift Observations of GRB 140508A DATE: 14/05/13 05:30:00 GMT FROM: Alex Amaral-Rogers at U.of Leicester Alex Amaral-Rogers reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: Swift has reobserved the field of GRB 140508A for a further 4.6 ks from 253.9 ks to 288.1 ks after the Fermi/GBM trigger. The source reported in GCN 16232 has been observed in the XRT to be fading; consistent with a power-law decay with an index of alpha = 1.48 (+0.15, -0.14). We now confirm the the source is the afterglow of GRB 140508A.