Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 275; Flight Crew Type 275
Situational Awareness
Airspace Violation All Types; Conflict NMAC; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft; Human Factors
Approaching FAP; an object suddenly appeared in the windscreen. Before I could even communicate a warning it flew just overhead of our aircraft. Pilot Flying did not see the object as it passed directly overhead within 50 feet. I immediately commented on a near miss with some type of unidentified object. My initial thought it was a large flat type of balloon although it appeared solid in nature as it flashed by. ATIS information had noted an unauthorized drone flying; which had been reported flying east of the airport north of the final approach course.
B737-700 Captain reported an NMAC with a UAV on final approach to SAN airport.