I was out photographing another aircraft accident at the bombing range for Nellis AFB, part-way up a mountain, when a flight of four B-52's flew past us. We were looking down at the tops of the bombers...I knew a B-52 pilot who declared an emergency after having a hole torn in the wing.
He was flying low level over the Great Lakes.
When they landed, they found fish scales and fish guts in the wing.
They jokingly asked “Exactly how low were you flying?”
They determined the the fish was most likely dropped by an Eagle.
He claims to have the only recorded case in Air Force history of “Fish Strike”.
Photographed an A7 out on the flight line not too long after I got to Nellis that had bits of mesquite bushes stuck in the landing gear...mesquite out there seems to mostly be under about 3 or 4 feet tall.