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We present the discovery of the fading radio transient FIRSTJ153350.8+272729. The source had a maximum observed 5-GHz radio luminosity of$8\times10^{39}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in 1986, but by 2019 had faded by a factor ofnearly 400. It is located 0.15 arcsec from the center of a galaxy (SDSSJ153350.89+272729) at 147 Mpc, which shows weak Type II Seyfert activity. Weshow that a tidal disruption event (TDE) is the preferred scenario for FIRSTJ153350.8+272729, although it could plausibly be interpreted as the afterglowof a long-duration gamma-ray burst. This is only the second TDE candidate to befirst discovered at radio wavelengths. Its luminosity fills a gap between theradio afterglows of sub-relativistic TDEs in the local universe, andrelativistic TDEs at high redshifts. The unusual properties of FIRSTJ153350.8+272729 (ongoing nuclear activity in the host galaxy, high radioluminosity) motivate more extensive TDE searches in untargeted radio surveys.

FIRST J153350.8+272729: the radio afterglow of a decades-old tidal disruption event