[MHGinTN]

What you described could be taken as ball lightening, except that ball lightening phenomena happens very quickly and is not enduring, lasting only seconds at the longest.

I sometimes wonder if the vast majority of humans planet-wide believed the phenomena they were experiencing for certain had extra terrestrial origins, would it change their perspective to take a longer view on life as a planet family? ... Not the Muslims, to be sure, but the rest, I want to believe it would profoundly effect the way we interact and what we would tolerate from financial oligarchs now manipulating humankind so adversely.

[Windflier]

I sometimes wonder if the vast majority of humans planet-wide believed the phenomena they were experiencing for certain had extra terrestrial origins, would it change their perspective to take a longer view on life as a planet family?

Ronald Reagan once asked the very same question. Remember that?