Re: "regular" ball lightning ?
The term for the type that tend to go into aircraft and houses is the "Navigator"
Its said that when they go through a keyhole BL can explode with little or no warning, or appear to fizzle out then reappear somewhere else.
The current consensus is that it may well be a Rydberg cloud or some sort of electromagnetic knot or torus though this shouldn't be possible according to the virial theorem this may need to be revised.
Also https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S136468262030331X
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