Captain reported encountering a uav while in descent for landing to lga.

Attributes
ACN	1660911
Time
Date	201906
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	LGA.Airport
State Reference	NY
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 900 (CRJ900)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	UAV - Unpiloted Aerial Vehicle
Operating Under FAR Part	Other 107
Flight Phase	Cruise
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument
Events
Anomaly	Conflict NMAC
Miss Distance	Horizontal 200

Narrative:

We were descending from 7;000 feet to 4;000 feet proceeding direct to the dials intersection. I was the pilot flying the airplane. At approximately 4;500 ft.; the first officer; pointed out an object at approximately 10 o'clock to our position. It took me about a half second to process what the object was. At first; I thought that it was a mylar balloon but then it looked more like two spheres connected together vertically. The object was dark in color and I would approximate the spheres to each be 2 feet in diameter. As the object was at about our 9 o'clock position; we determined that the object was a uav. By that time; we were already passing the object and there was no time to react. From the moment of detection; until the object was safely past our wing was approximately 3 seconds. I would estimate that our left wing came within 200-500 feet of the object; however; I cannot be sure how close (or far) we came from it due to the short time that we saw it. Immediately after passing the object; we notified approach control of the encounter.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Captain reported encountering a UAV while in descent for landing to LGA.

Narrative: We were descending from 7;000 feet to 4;000 feet proceeding direct to the DIALS intersection. I was the pilot flying the airplane. At approximately 4;500 ft.; the First Officer; pointed out an object at approximately 10 o'clock to our position. It took me about a half second to process what the object was. At first; I thought that it was a mylar balloon but then it looked more like two spheres connected together vertically. The object was dark in color and I would approximate the spheres to each be 2 feet in diameter. As the object was at about our 9 o'clock position; we determined that the object was a UAV. By that time; we were already passing the object and there was no time to react. From the moment of detection; until the object was safely past our wing was approximately 3 seconds. I would estimate that our left wing came within 200-500 feet of the object; however; I cannot be sure how close (or far) we came from it due to the short time that we saw it. Immediately after passing the object; we notified approach control of the encounter.

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.