Air carrier captain reported a conflict with a uav while on approach to msp.

Attributes
ACN	1549558
Time
Date	201806
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	MSP.Airport
State Reference	MN
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	UAV - Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
Operating Under FAR Part	Other 107
Flight Phase	Cruise
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200 Vertical 500

Narrative:

While on final into msp on runway 12R; my first officer noticed an object to the left of our aircraft. We were descending through 4;000 feet and the object looked to be around 3;500 feet and approximately 200 feet off our left side it looked to be black and silver in color and approximately 3 feet tall. It looked to be maintaining level flight and possibly moving opposite our direction of flight. ATC was notified and we continued into msp and had a normal landing.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier Captain reported a conflict with a UAV while on approach to MSP.

Narrative: While on final into MSP on runway 12R; my first officer noticed an object to the left of our aircraft. We were descending through 4;000 feet and the object looked to be around 3;500 feet and approximately 200 feet off our left side it looked to be black and silver in color and approximately 3 feet tall. It looked to be maintaining level flight and possibly moving opposite our direction of flight. ATC was notified and we continued into MSP and had a normal landing.

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.