Objective 1: Uncover Santa's Gift List

The first challenge involved "un-swirling" an image. The image at the side of the New Jersey Turnpike was just out of frame, and to obtain it I had to zoom out a bit with my browser. Once I saw it, I saved it locally and tried my hand at manipulating it. Taking the original image, I used Photopea to unswirl the image. I am not good with image editing, so I did my best to at least make it legible:

We can see that Santa is giving Josh Wright a proxmark for Christmas! And I'm jealous!