This is an example (during lightning hear background sound) of the existence of long living Ball Lightning (See the pole top) and splitting by mechanical TREE contact by falling to the street.
Keeping enough energy to keep minutes burning at the street.
Conclusion: Ball Lightnings are BECs of interfering Electro Magnetic radiation from minimal three sides, according to the String Model able to construct simple massive Higgs (BECs) of Q-FFF Theory.
Below some Higgs constructions or Bose Einstein Condensates. or micro Black Holes.
(3 or more merged photons below:)
Minimal Three side interference seems to be needed for Higgs/BEC formation in the air.
see; below the Q-FFF String Model forming Ball Lightning BECs.
Birth of Ball Lightning (small or larger) at the top of a lightning stroke.
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