BE35 pilot reported a near midair collision with a uav at 7500 ft in the vicinity of trl airport.

Attributes
ACN	1500289
Time
Date	201711
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	TRL.Airport
State Reference	TX
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Bonanza 35
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct
Flight Plan	None
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	UAV - Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
Operating Under FAR Part	Other 107
Flight Phase	Cruise
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Private
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 25 Flight Crew Total 400 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 0 Vertical 500

Narrative:

Departed gpm at 2500 with a southerly heading until clear of cedar hill (all the big towers). Once clear; I started to turn left to overfly jwy and climb to 3000. After class B; I started my climb to 7500 toward the little rock area. I was using terrell (trl) as a fix and a check for weather (altimeter) when I noticed something that looked like a bird. Since I fly a lot in the sgt area; I see a lot of birds of different types - and I thought I was seeing a bird at first. I thought - good; I'm higher and the bird should not be a factor. Then I tried to re-focus my eyes as the movement wasn't quite like a bird - close; but not the same. Worse; my brain was not making sense of what kind of bird this might be as I was trying to 'see' a black vulture. What my eyes kept telling me is this black vulture had four evenly space red dots (as a square) on its back!then I got mad - that's a drone. And since I don't know a lot about them; I have no way to process how close the drone was. My best guess is within 500 ft.my position: about 6 miles southwest of trl at 7500 flying a magnetic heading of 065.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: BE35 pilot reported a NMAC with a UAV at 7500 ft in the vicinity of TRL airport.

Narrative: Departed GPM at 2500 with a southerly heading until clear of Cedar Hill (all the big towers). Once clear; I started to turn left to overfly JWY and climb to 3000. After Class B; I started my climb to 7500 toward the Little Rock area. I was using Terrell (TRL) as a fix and a check for weather (altimeter) when I noticed something that looked like a bird. Since I fly a lot in the SGT area; I see a lot of birds of different types - and I thought I was seeing a bird at first. I thought - good; I'm higher and the bird should not be a factor. Then I tried to re-focus my eyes as the movement wasn't quite like a bird - close; but not the same. Worse; my brain was not making sense of what kind of bird this might be as I was trying to 'see' a black vulture. What my eyes kept telling me is this black vulture had four evenly space red dots (as a square) on its back!Then I got mad - that's a drone. And since I don't know a lot about them; I have no way to process how close the drone was. My best guess is within 500 ft.My position: about 6 miles southwest of TRL at 7500 flying a magnetic heading of 065.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.