Narrative:

Climbing through about 10;000 ft to a cleared altitude of 17;000 ft we encountered a small fast moving object could have been a balloon or a rc drone a few hundred feet above us and to the right moving in the opposite direction (so it had appeared at the time). The controller asked us if we were in the turn to the waypoint to which cleared to a few moments before; I said yes we are in the turn now and explained I had delayed the turn for a few seconds to ensure the object passed and was ensuring visual separation and enhancing flight safety to attempt to actually acquire what the conflict was. The object could have been a balloon as well but the shape was more consistently that of a rc drone. If it was a drone maybe the FAA should not have allowed the use of them into the national airspace without proper certificated training of the user to force the importance of safety of all those that use the airspace system; and lobbying for the manufacturing companies to physically restrict their ability to operate under the devices own power from altitudes greater than 300 ft and within a certain radius from known airports (especially in the class B and C airspace lateral boundaries).

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-200 Captain reported an airborne object; either a balloon or UAS; near 10;000 feet while departing MSP.

Narrative: Climbing through about 10;000 ft to a cleared altitude of 17;000 ft we encountered a small fast moving object could have been a balloon or a RC drone a few hundred feet above us and to the right moving in the opposite direction (so it had appeared at the time). The controller asked us if we were in the turn to the waypoint to which cleared to a few moments before; I said yes we are in the turn now and explained I had delayed the turn for a few seconds to ensure the object passed and was ensuring visual separation and enhancing flight safety to attempt to actually acquire what the conflict was. The object could have been a balloon as well but the shape was more consistently that of a RC drone. If it was a drone maybe the FAA should not have allowed the use of them into the national airspace without proper certificated training of the user to force the importance of safety of all those that use the airspace system; and lobbying for the manufacturing companies to physically restrict their ability to operate under the devices own power from altitudes greater than 300 ft and within a certain radius from known airports (especially in the Class B and C airspace lateral boundaries).

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.