  The Pierre Auger Observatory reports that 20 of the 27 highest energy cosmic
rays have arrival directions within 3.2 deg of a nearby galaxy in the
Veron-Cetty & Veron Catalog of Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (12th Ed.),
with ~5 of the correlations expected by chance. In this paper we examine the
correlated galaxies to gain insight into the possible UHECR sources. We find
that 14 of the 21 correlated VCV galaxies are AGNs and we determine their
bolometric luminosities. The remaining 7 are primarily star-forming galaxies.
The bolometric luminosities of the correlated AGNs are all greater than 5 x
10^{42} erg/s, which may explain the absence of UHECRs from the Virgo region in
spite of the large number of VCV galaxies in Virgo, since most of the VCV
galaxies in the Virgo region are low luminosity AGNs. Interestingly, the
bolometric luminosities of most of the AGNs are significantly lower than
required to satisfy the minimum condition for UHECR acceleration in a
continuous jet. If a UHECR-AGN correlation is substantiated with further
statistics, our results lend support to the recently proposed ``giant AGN
flare" mechanism for UHECR acceleration.
