(DEBUNKED) White block-like entities found around an older world (1.11.4)

-I have a world that I have been playing on for half a year or so, i would create backup versions in case a crash happened or I accidentally blew up the whole place. I forgot about the world for about a month and began playing on it again last week. I ran around killing mobs and came across this white thing, it looked like a block but I could pass through it, not to mention it wasn’t off-centre of the block it was on. Later I would find more of these, i did some tests to figure out what it was.
  There’s a glitch I use that when you fly faster than the world can generate, you can see movable and chests before the normal blocks load. It appears to be an entity, since I can see it before the world loads like I could a cow or chicken. When I dig up the blocks under it, it fell, meaning it was affected by gravity. When in a fire it will catch on fire, it will eventually go out though. I cannot horn it or interact with it other than changing the environment. 
I only noticed this after the 1.11.4 update. I can’t be sure it wasn’t there before. I’m going to trunk some more tests on one of these glitches, I want to see if it is affected by water or pistons.-

Edit: I teleported to the location of one and it appeared as a tnt block before turning back to white. These were the remnants of a huge explosion with lots of tnt that glitched out and stayed. (My game crashed during the initial explosion many times)

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