Fireballs cannot be interacted with when summoned

Entities are randomly non-interactive or turn invisible. 

 

Steps to reproduce:

1) Start a new creative world. 

2) Run       /summon minecraft:fireball ~ ~ ~ {direction:[0.0,0.0,0.0]}       to create a static fireball

3) Punch or observe the fireball. If it is non-interactive or blinking in and out of existence the bug is occurring. 

If the fireball appears normal and can be punched repeat steps 1 through 3 some worlds/biomes seem to always have this issue where some it is more intermittent. 

 

When the bug is occurring you cannot punch the fireball at all. You can however, place a block on the fireballs location and it will explode showing that the entities exist but cannot be interacted with by the player.