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.

翻译：不明异常现象（UAP），亦称不明飞行物（UFO），已从科学探索边缘的污名化话题，转变为需要高质量、经筛选数据及严谨科学调查的合法科学议题。本文对1967年至2023年间与UAP相关的学术文献进行了初步的范围综述与分析，探讨了跨学科领域多元研究方向，以阐释学界对该话题的论述。论文聚焦于近年来发表论文的特征，指出图书馆与信息科学在现有UAP文献中尚无代表。本文亦讨论了iFields领域的研究者如何通过数据筛选与数据科学、信息行为与信息素养等固有专长，为UAP研究作出贡献。最终，论文强调UAP研究为信息科学研究提供了丰富的知识领域，而iFields领域在支持和参与UAP研究中具备发挥关键作用的优势。