We report the serendipitous detection of a previously unreported pulsar from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud using data from the CHANDRA X-Ray Observatory .
Because of its luminosity ( \sim 1.5 \times 10 ^ { 35 } ergs/s ) , its near lack of variability for more than 20 years , and its very soft spectrum we propose that it is an anomalous X-ray pulsar ( AXP ) .
Data from the ROSAT PSPC in conjunction with the CHANDRA data give a period , P , of 5.44 s and a spin down time , P / \dot { P } , of 11 ky .
If this is a correct identification it will be the first extragalactic AXP and the fastest yet discovered .