  Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), also known as Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFOs), has shifted from being a stigmatized topic on the fringes of
scientific inquiry to a legitimate subject of scientific interest with a need
for high quality, curated data, and rigorous scientific investigation. This
paper presents a preliminary scoping review and analysis of scholarly
literature related to UAP from 1967 until 2023, exploring a diverse range of
research areas across disciplines to illustrate scholarly discourse about the
topic. The paper focuses on characterizing papers published in recent years and
notes that Library & Information Science is unrepresented in the current UAP
literature. The paper also discusses how researchers across the iFields can
contribute to UAP studies through inherent expertise such as data curation and
data science as well as information behavior and information literacy, among
others. The paper concludes by emphasizing that UAP Studies offer a rich
intellectual realm for information science research, with the iFields well
positioned to play a crucial role in supporting and engaging in the study of
UAP.
