Large Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Workload; Situational Awareness; Distraction
Airspace Violation All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR
Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Procedure; Human Factors; Environment - Non Weather Related
While flying the ILS 22L into EWR we heard an aircraft in front of us report that 'They may have just flown past a drone'. The tower then asked us to be sure we heard the report. I was the Pilot monitoring so was looking intently for the drone. At about 420 MSL the drone came into sight above and to the right of our flight path. The FO also had it in sight and no deviations were needed. It all happened very fast and the object was quite a blur. It appeared to be brown or grey in color and the outline of circular rotor blades visible. Size; speed and direction of travel impossible to tell. It appeared stationary from my perspective but may be because of the large speed differential. We landed completely normally other than spotting the drone. We verbally reported to the tower and also were met by police who wanted a description as well.
The aicraft was stable and the drone was not in our immediate Flight Path as it was to the right and above us. The CA filed a report to capture the details for the company.
An air carrier crew was notified by EWR Tower about an earlier UAS sighting. They also detected the UAS at about 420 feet; but the craft's details were difficult to determine.