BW030

This article is about an episode of the Pokémon anime that has not been dubbed into English. As such, its coverage may contain romanized Japanese names, rather than dub names.

← BW029 : Cottonee in Love!

Best Wishes series

BW031 : Ash and Trip's Third Battle! →

A UFO for Elgyem!

BW030   EP687 リグレーと未確認飛行物体！ Ligray and the UFO!

First broadcast Japan May 5, 2011 United States August 27, 2011

English themes Opening Black and White Ending

Japanese themes Opening ベストウイッシュ！ Ending ポケモン言えるかな？ＢＷ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 米村正二 Shōji Yonemura Storyboard うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Assistant director うえだしげる Shigeru Ueda Animation director 緒方厚 Atsushi Ogata Additional credits

Screenshots on Filb.de

A UFO for Elgyem! (Japanese: リグレーと未確認飛行物体！ Ligray and the UFO!) is the 30th episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 687th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 5, 2011, and is scheduled to air in the United States on August 27, 2011.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Major events

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Elgyem

Characters

Humans

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• Ash
• Iris
• Cilan
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Imori
• Townspeople
• Students (flashback)
• Postman (flashback)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Axew (Iris's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Tranquill (Ash's)
• Pansage (Cilan's)
• Dwebble (Cilan's)
• Woobat (Jessie's)
• Yamask (James's)
• Elgyem (Professor Imori's; debut)

Trivia

• Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Krokorok
  • The Live Caster for this episode features clips from an unaired episode.

Errors

One of Cilan's vest errors (all black back)

• During the scene where Cilan first meets Professor Imori, the back of his vest turns all gray and at one point turns all black.
• When Cilan's Dwebble was using X-Scissor to destroy Team Rocket's machine, its rock was colored like Burgh's Dwebble's rock.

Dub edits

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← BW029 : Cottonee in Love!

Best Wishes series

BW031 : Ash and Trip's Third Battle! →

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