Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Distraction; Other / Unknown; Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Airspace Structure; Environment - Non Weather Related
While flying the FOOXX5 RNAV arrival; we were given direct FADDI intersection on the ILS Runway 19R into TPA. We broke off the STAR at approximately the DARBS waypoint.Upon crossing the shoreline at approximately 5;000 ft. I noticed a black object at our 12 o'clock. For the first second or two I suspected it was a bird and made a comment to my First Officer that I had sighted a bird straight ahead. Very quickly after making that comment I noticed the object wasn't moving as a bird would.Immediately after noting the strange movement of the object it began moving rapidly to the aircrafts 9 o'clock. It made this movement in a swift; sweeping motion and ended up passing outside of my window. The object was far enough away that I deemed it unnecessary to change the aircrafts lateral or vertical flight path. It was far off the left wingtip of the aircraft; and we were moving much faster away from it than it could from us. The object was however close enough that I could see it was a man-made machine.While the black object was abeam the aircraft I could note it had the appearance of a drone. It appeared to be a drone that used rotors for flight. There was a light on it that appeared to have a yellowish tint. It appeared to maintain a constant altitude and move laterally on a linear plane.I have never owned or operated a drone; but from what I have seen from friends and on the internet it appeared to be a drone one would buy for personal use. Being that our location was the near the shoreline I would assume the operator was filming the beach.
Air Carrier Captain report a NMAC with a UAV.