Narrative:

We were departing torrance; california in contact with socal departure. We were cleared direct to seal beach VOR and climbing through approximately 5;000 feet when I caught movement in my peripheral vision about the 10 O'clock position. By the time I was able to look directly at the object; it passed approximately 30 to 50 feet off of our left wing tip. I initially thought it was a bird until the sun light reflected off the object; giving the appearance of a mirrored or metallic finish; the object was moving horizontally at a high rate of speed (much higher than a bird) leading to the conclusion that it was a small drone that we nearly missed colliding with. We reported the occurrence with ATC and continued the flight with no further issues.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: PIC reported encountering a drone approaching SLI VOR.

Narrative: We were departing Torrance; California in contact with SoCal departure. We were cleared direct to Seal Beach VOR and climbing through approximately 5;000 feet when I caught movement in my peripheral vision about the 10 O'Clock position. By the time I was able to look directly at the object; it passed approximately 30 to 50 feet off of our left wing tip. I initially thought it was a bird until the sun light reflected off the object; giving the appearance of a mirrored or metallic finish; the object was moving horizontally at a high rate of speed (much higher than a bird) leading to the conclusion that it was a small drone that we nearly missed colliding with. We reported the occurrence with ATC and continued the flight with no further issues.

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.