http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ukraine-strange-sound-in-kiev
Here is I guess a “famous” one from Kiev - Ukraine. Interesting how there is no response from the pedestrians far below. And the camera operator also thinks it is odd I think and is why she zooms in on them.
After she zooms in on them a window in the opposite building opens, and looks like a couple of people come to the window.
It would be interesting to understand what the little kid is saying to the operator (a woman).
And this one does sound like large machinery grinding against each other, slowly. But obviously way too loud so high up in the air.
Here are two I found taken at baseball games. The announcers remark on the noise. That's getting hard to blow off as a hoax.
I see now that there were two versions of the Kiev video on that page. The first was short and the first half of it was blacked out with translated text on it. Just watched the second one that was eleven minutes long. Never saw that full length one before. The woman pushing the baby stroller did seem to be looking around for the source of the noise. Hard to tell for sure. Wish I knew what they were saying too.