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WWII Air Raid Siren — free sound effect

6.0s · WAV & MP3 · ambience · 302 downloads · quality 9.7/10 · royalty-free, CC BY 4.0

urgent, wailing, piercing, loud, fluctuating, clear

Credit it like this (the one condition of the free licence):

“WWII Air Raid Siren” by BudgetPixel AI (https://budgetpixel.com/sfx/wwii-air-raid-siren-6f5adbe1) — CC BY 4.0

About this sound

An AI-generated sound effect: “world war two air raid siren winding up and down”. Quality-checked before listing, free for commercial and personal projects — videos, games, podcasts, apps and client work. No royalties — just credit BudgetPixel AI.

Direct file: WAV · 44.1 kHz — both WAV and MP3 are on the download button.

Editor's note (9.7/10): This clip is an almost perfect match for the brief, featuring a crisp unobscured siren with the required rising and falling pitch, no extraneous noise, speech, or music present.

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Sound effect licensing — common questions

Is "WWII Air Raid Siren" free to use commercially?
Yes. "WWII Air Raid Siren" is free for commercial and personal use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — monetised YouTube videos, podcasts, games, apps, ads, streams, films and client work are all covered, with no fees, royalties or subscription. The one condition is the credit: “WWII Air Raid Siren” by BudgetPixel AI (https://budgetpixel.com/sfx/wwii-air-raid-siren-6f5adbe1) — CC BY 4.0
Do I have to credit BudgetPixel to use "WWII Air Raid Siren"?
Yes — crediting BudgetPixel AI is the one condition of the licence, and downloading still needs no account. Put the credit line from this page wherever your project lists sources: a video description, end credits, show notes, or a game's credits screen.
What format and length is "WWII Air Raid Siren"?
"WWII Air Raid Siren" runs 6 seconds and downloads as WAV at 44.1 kHz, with MP3 on the same download button. Both formats carry the identical licence, so pick whichever your editor prefers — WAV for layering and pitch work, MP3 when file size matters.
Can I use "WWII Air Raid Siren" in a monetised YouTube video?
Yes. Monetised video is explicitly permitted. BudgetPixel never registers library audio with Content ID, and because this sound effect is licensed to everyone non-exclusively under CC BY 4.0, no one can hold the exclusive rights Content ID requires. If a claim ever appears, dispute it and cite this page and its licence.

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The whole library is searchable through the BudgetPixel MCP connector and the developer API, on every plan, Free included. A search costs 10 credits and returns each result's download link and credit line, so the 300 credits a free account gets every month cover 30 searches.

Ask your AI agent

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to your BudgetPixel account once, with no API key, then ask in plain words:

Find a free sound effect like “WWII Air Raid Siren” and give me the download link and its credit line.

Call the API

One request, with an API key from the developer console:

curl -G https://api.budgetpixel.com/v1/stock/sound-effects \
  --data-urlencode "query=wwii air raid siren" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BUDGETPIXEL_API_KEY"

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