Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness
Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Human Factors
We were cleared to 4;400 ft on descent. We punched through a cloud layer at 250 kts with 1000 ft to level off. I observed an object off the nose; slightly right of course. Unsure what it was; [I] looked down at the TCAS to try to ID it. After being unable to; I looked back up to track it and couldn't see it. A few moments later; I identified the object as a glider; which had been flying in and out of the clouds. As we were asked by ATC to ID the field; the glider started to turn into our flight path. At this point I immediately identified the glider to the flying pilot; the First Officer. I told him to deviate around the glider as I contacted approach. The glider was not showing anything on ATC radar either. We passed the glider at less than half a mile at the same altitude. ATIS was reporting glider activity; but did not state an altitude or an exact location.I guess we could ask ATC for a more exact location of the glider. Had the glider not been violating FAR cloud clearance requirements; or had a working transponder; this would have never happened as we could have been more aware of its location and deviated earlier around it.
CRJ-200 Captain reported an airborne conflict with a glider on approach to UNV airport.