C-172 pilot reported sighting a drone close by during cruise flight.

Attributes
ACN	1605225
Time
Date	201812
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZJX.ARTCC
State Reference	FL
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
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 19 Flight Crew Total 153 Flight Crew Type 12
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 150 Vertical 25

Narrative:

We encountered a drone at our cruise altitude of 4500 feet. It was clearly identifiable as an unmanned aerial vehicle with a white/red top and black bottom. No evasive action taken because the time between seeing the drone and the drone passing about 150 feet from our left wing was too short (estimate between 0.5 and 1 second).

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C-172 pilot reported sighting a drone close by during cruise flight.

Narrative: We encountered a drone at our cruise altitude of 4500 feet. It was clearly identifiable as an unmanned aerial vehicle with a white/red top and black bottom. No evasive action taken because the time between seeing the drone and the drone passing about 150 feet from our left wing was too short (estimate between 0.5 and 1 second).

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.