The only file given is a GIF image, named redacted-puzzle.gif. We must first inspect it:

$ exiftool redacted-puzzle.gif
ExifTool Version Number         : 10.80
File Name                       : redacted-puzzle.gif
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 78 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2019:05:10 17:05:42-07:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2019:05:10 17:05:42-07:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2019:05:10 17:26:26-07:00
File Permissions                : rwxrwxrwx
File Type                       : GIF
File Type Extension             : gif
MIME Type                       : image/gif
GIF Version                     : 89a
Image Width                     : 1280
Image Height                    : 720
Has Color Map                   : Yes
Color Resolution Depth          : 3
Bits Per Pixel                  : 2
Background Color                : 3
Animation Iterations            : Infinite
Frame Count                     : 35
Duration                        : 8.75 s
Image Size                      : 1280x720
Megapixels                      : 0.922

OK. We know that this is likely a GIF with 35 frames. Let’s try opening it:

Let’s gather some more information about this GIF:

$identify -verbose redacted-puzzle.gif

 . . .

  Colormap:
         0: (  0,  0,  0,255) #000000FF graya(0,1)
         1: (  0,  0,  0,255) #000000FF graya(0,1)
         2: (  0,  0,  0,255) #000000FF graya(0,1)
         3: (255,255,255,  0) #FFFFFF00 graya(255,0)

 . . . 

That is a bit of a weird color map… Those should correspond with different colors. Let’s open this image in gimp. We use the Open as Layers option to get each frame as an individual layer.

Much layers. Next, we gotta fix that color mapping issue. Colors>Map>Set Color Map and choose Pallete>Ega:

Well, we know what the flag’s alphabet will be. Then, after looking at each slide . . .

We determined it best to remove the black backgrounds on each. One by one.

Now we can see them all overlapping. They form some sort of circle:

Let’s examine only a couple…

That is intresting. Going off a hunch, we decided to build sets of binary digits representing if the vertex of a frame was where one of the verticies of the overall ‘octagon’, using dots in the background:

As we repeated that for each layer, the shapes’ verticies started to ‘rotate’, or ‘drift’ (thus why when all overlayed, they formed a circle, not octagon). We decided to track the movment and adjust the background dots. We generated the ‘bytes’:

verticies = ['10001100', '01100011', '11100100', '01000110', 10000101', '00111101', '01000010', '10011000', '11100000', '11110100', '10000000', '00101101', '01110010', '00011100', '00001000', '10100101', '11010111', '01101110', '10100110', '10010001', '10111100', '10000100', '10000001', '10111001', '11010100', '00111011', '11001110', '11110010', '00011110', '10011101', '11001001', '11000111', '01100101', '00011110', '10011111']

Now comes the challenge of making sense of those. We know that the first three should be the same (which they arent) because flags start with OOO.... A pattern appears when you concattenate the first couple ‘bytes’:

100011000110001....

That looks to be three identical 5- bit numbers. Concattenating all of the verticies and splitting them by 5’s yields:

cintuplets = ['10001', '10001', '10001', '11110', '01000', '10001', '10100', '00101', '00111', '10101', '00001', '01001', '10001', '11000', '00111', '10100', '10000', '00000', '10110', '10111', '00100', '00111', '00000', '01000', '10100', '10111', '01011', '10110', '11101', '01001', '10100', '10001', '10111', '10010', '00010', '01000', '00011', '01110', '01110', '10100', '00111', '01111', '00111', '01111', '00100', '00111', '10100', '11101', '11001', '00111', '00011', '10110', '01010', '00111', '10100', '11111']

Those first couple convert to be 17 in decimal. Coincidentally, at index 17 of our alphabet is the letter ‘O’.

Note that in redacted-puzzle-solve.py we exclude the location that you started forming the bits for each byte of verticies from on the octagon.

OOO{FORCES-GOVERN+TUBE+FRUIT_GROUP=FALLREMEMBER_WEATHER}