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We report on the detection of UV variability and the persistence of X-rayfaintness of the X-ray transient Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy WPVS 007 based onthe first year of monitoring this AGN with Swift between 2005 October and 2007January. WPVS 007 has been an unusual source. While being X-ray bright duringthe ROSAT All-Sky Survey it has been extremely faint in all following X-rayobservations. Swift also finds this NLS1 to be X-ray faint and not detected inthe Swift X-Ray Telescope at an 3$\sigma$ upper limit of $2.6\times 10^{-17}$ Wm$^{-2}$ in the 0.3-10.0 keV band and confirms that the AGN is still in a lowstate. During the 2006 July and December observations with \swift's UV-OpticalTelescope (UVOT) the AGN became fainter by about 0.2 mag in the UV filters andby about 0.1 mag in V, B, and U compared with the 2005 October to 2006 Januaryand 2006 September/October observations followed by a rebrightening in the 2007January observation. This variability can be caused either by a change in theabsorption column density and therefore the reddening in the UV, or by fluxvariations of the central engine. We also noticed that the flux in the UVOTfilters agree with earlier measurements by the International UltravioletExplorer taken between 1993-1995, but spectra taken by the Hubble SpaceTelescope Faint Object Spectrograph show that WPVS 007 was fainter in the UV bya factor of at least 2 in 1996. The flat optical/UV spectrum suggests that someUV extinction is present in the spectrum, but that alone cannot at all accountfor the dramatic fading in the X-ray flux. Most likely we see a partialcovering absorber in X-rays. Alternatively, the current X-ray emission seenfrom WPVS 007 may also be the emission from the host galaxy.Comment: Accepted for publications in the Astronomical Journal, 14 pages, 5  figures, 4 table

An Update on the X-Ray Transient Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy WPVS 007:SwiftObservations of UV Variability and Persistence of X-Ray Faintness