foo fighter

term used by Allied aircraft pilots in WW2 to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena
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foo fighter

Summary

foo fighter ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,302 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • foo fighter's image is recorded as Foofighter (cropped).png[2].
  • foo fighter's subclass of is recorded as unidentified flying object[3].
  • foo fighter's Commons category is recorded as Foo fighter[4].
  • foo fighter's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01bv58[5].
  • foo fighter's different from is recorded as Foo Fighters[6].
  • foo fighter's studied by is recorded as ufology[7].
  • foo fighter's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 21337479[8].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for foo fighter include Foo Fighters[9], a rock band[10], founded in 1995[11].

Why It Matters

foo fighter ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,302 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Entities named for it include Foo Fighters[9], a rock band[10], founded in 1995[11].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [9] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_foo-fighter_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{foo fighter}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/foo-fighter}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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