Seen it once as a kid in Florida. It zoomed along a road for a ways before I lost sight of it. Weird stuff. If my mom hadn't been there going "holy crap, ball lightning!" I probably wouldn't trust the memory.
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I was terrified of this as a kid, read about it in a weather field guide