Airbus captain reported encountering a drone during descent into mci airport.

Attributes
ACN	1684186
Time
Date	201909
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A319
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	Other unknown
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Total 14700
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Airborne Conflict

Narrative:

On arrival into clt from ZZZ; we were flying the FILPZ3 arrival. We were south of valll at 5;000 feet; talking with charlotte approach. We thought that we saw a small bird near our altitude. As it passes to our left; slightly above us; we noted it was not a bird. It also didn't look like a balloon. It had small contours; and we decided it could be a drone. I reported it to approach control.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Airbus Captain reported encountering a drone during descent into MCI airport.

Narrative: On arrival into CLT from ZZZ; we were flying the FILPZ3 arrival. We were south of VALLL at 5;000 feet; talking with Charlotte Approach. We thought that we saw a small bird near our altitude. As it passes to our left; slightly above us; we noted it was not a bird. It also didn't look like a balloon. It had small contours; and we decided it could be a drone. I reported it to Approach Control.

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.