A groundbreaking new documentary is set to delve into the mysterious skies above America’s atomic heartland, exploring a surge of unexplained aerial phenomena that coincided with the dawn of the nuclear era. “The Cosmic Trigger: Trinity 1945,” produced by award-winning filmmaker Larry L. Sheffield, will premiere on May 16, 2026, at the Flickinger Center for the Performing Arts in Alamogordo, New Mexico—the very region where history’s first atomic bomb test ignited a chain of events that may have attracted otherworldly attention.   Flickinger Center -May 16, 2026 6pm