Nothing new, conceptually, albeit a new situation in which the effect is noticed. I must confess to not having read about it previously.
Any time you have a significant change in flow direction you will get a force generated.
Think about how a wing turns the airflow down and a force (lift) is directed up.
Think about those aircraft (eg piston to turbo conversions especially) with SAS add-ons to fix a resulting long stab problem. At low speed, high thrust (eg missed approach), the prop position (typically repositioned forward for CG concerns) provides a significant destabilising up force at the prop disk. Same thing can apply for underslung fans during the miss spin up.
Looking at the nacelle story, if the wind is from the L/R (ie crosswind) you get a lateral yawing moment and yawing turn due to the offset until the normal directional aspects get to take control.