I hope these results and explorations for their explanation are coordinated with LIGO and other teams chasing the Gravitational Waves (GW) especially with 7/2017 assumed NeutronStar merge where the afterglow of GRB source got 4-fold brighter vs. weaker as expected. Also, the related recent work on disturbances in magneto/ionos-sphere caused by solar wind or Coronal Mass Ejection bursts appear connected to the observed TGF results.

You have data temporally connecting their measured spikes with Coronal activity reaching Earth? Please share! I don't know why you would keep this to yourself!

@691, no kidding. Correlations with either solar wind fluctuation or CME arrival would be extremely significant; since the data are all public (freely available for this paper at the DOI link in this article as "supporting information" and freely available online for CMEs and solar wind fluctuations) this shouldn't be a difficult task. But I seriously doubt anyone will find anything here. Looks like more Thunderdolts BS to me, suspiciously similar to "god of the gaps" arguments about evolution and molecular biology.

So what could explain LIGO reported GW data?

A neutron star merger. As predicted. And as confirmed by the follow-up observations. No need for any woo.

@Anon, we're not interested in your theories of the universe nor in your claims to expertise that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the subject at hand. Either you can look at the publicly available data and substantiate your conjecture or you cannot, and unless you've got something more than what you just said you cannot. And that's the only thing that matters.

I'd be very interested in what could trigger a detection in Washington state, Louisiana and Italy, with minute differences in time and direction that allowed them to triangulate to a place in the sky where, tadaaaa, they saw pretty much what was predicted for a neutron star merger.
That would be some trick.

^^^^^^^Bollocks. That is pure word salad. How is it causing the same effect in three separate places? And when they triangulate that signal they see a neutron star merger. Not assumed. Confirmed as near as makes no difference, including the predicted r-process nucleosynthesis. Whatever the hell DU is, did it predict that? And where do you think a frigging CME would triangulate to? Have a think about that one. Sorry, just another physics crank whose world has been screwed up by real scientists doing real science. Tough, get over it, and find a woo forum to post your nonsense on.

Useless clickbait article, the author should retire.

Did you even read the article? I feel the title and content match, and it was kind of interesting. What makes it clickbait?

Electric discharge as the source of gamma rays, here on Earth and in the Cosmos as well.

^^^^^^^^WTF is that nonsense? This is an article about gamma rays from terrestrial lightning. What the hell has that got to do with neutron star mergers creating GWs 130 m ly away? Nothing whatsoever, would be the answer to that. And what is suntola? Some kind of yoghurt?

Electric discharge as the source of gamma rays, here on Earth and in the Cosmos as well.

Nope. What electric discharges in the cosmos?

It can explain the controversies of Earth vs Sun centered world view 400 years ago and its recent repeat of Dark Energy (DE) mistake of GRT to explain SN1a data in the more cosmic scale of BB vs. DU centered view.

What do you mean by BB vs DU? I believe that DU also starts with BB, the universe is just a lot younger.

Maybe it's just me, the daffy knucklehead that I am....but...
isn't something missing here?
There are known stochastic health risks from exposure to upward TGFs while flying through a thunderstorm.
With a similar source as upward TGFs and a footprint of 3 to 5 kilometers, are not downward TGF doses a concern of potential threat to one's immediate well-being?