Why did they call U.F.O.s FOO FIGHTERS.....????

Question

Why did they call U.F.O.s FOO FIGHTERS.....????

Answer 1

That happened during WWII, when disks were seen around our airplanes. "Foo" comes from some comic strip of that era--I don't know which one. But I read that somewhere.

Answer 2

Foo , derived from Foo man chu, although Chinese was a derogatory name tagged onto the Japanese, meaning to be hurtful , just like calling the Germans Krauts was meant to do harm.

It was basically a stereotypical, racist term.

Answer 3

This is the comic strip...got it from Bronx's link

The term is generally thought to have been borrowed from the often surrealist comic strip Smokey Stover. Smokey, a firefighter, was fond of saying, "Where there's foo there's fire." (This "foo" may have come from feu, the French word for "fire", or Feuer the German word for "fire", or from Smokey's mispronunciation of the word "fuel".) A Big Little Book titled Smokey Stover the Foo Fighter was published in 1938. Foo may alternatively have come from either of the French words "faux" meaning "fake", or "fou" meaning "mad."

Answer 4

The link Bronx has provided explains it as thoroughly, accurately and with as much depth as it will get explained.

As for combattants not intending harm to the guys they're trying to kill  [answerer a couple above me], it probably qualifies as a paranormal concept.  That one's worth more thought than I'm accustomed to giving UFOs.

Answer 5

There's a couple of explanations in the link. Hope this helps.