I've been pondering an odd re-interpretation of the encounter that fits with the (admittedly) fragmentary alleged facts of the situation.
Let's review ...
There's evidence to suggest the encounter occurred much nearer Cennina than her starting point at the La Collina farm. According to the Italian WikiUFO site account (linked earlier) townspeople returned to the scene only about 30 minutes after Ms. Lotti's encounter. She'd traveled from the encounter site to Cennina, was noticed to be upset / shaken, related her story to both the priest and a member of the carabinieri, and a crowd of townsfolk returned to the scene - all in the space of 30 minutes. It seems to me this extended sequence of events couldn't have occurred in so short a period of time unless the encounter scene lay fairly close to Cennina.
This also means that whatever action cleared the encounter scene happened quickly enough that nothing was found when the townsfolk returned to the site. Either the two little men were able to evacuate the site all on their own, or they had additional help near at hand that Rosa hadn't seen.
Rosa was on her way to the church at Cennina, carrying flowers "... destined for the altar of the Madonna Pellegrina, whose procession had taken place the preceding evening."
http://www.ignaciodarnaude.com/avistamientos_ovnis/Conti,Humanoids 1954,Cennina,FSR72V18N5.pdf
The Madonna Pellegrina (Pilgrim Madonna) was the focus of a Marian movement (or fad, if you will ... ) following the war - a movement that was at its peak in 1954 ...
The pilgrim Madonna or Peregrinatio Mariae is the Catholic tradition of translating a Marian effigy along an itinerary that touches the various locations of a diocese or a wider territory, sometimes represented by an entire country , sometimes extended beyond the same national borders. .
Custom has the meaning of mission for believers and is accompanied by evangelical preaching and the administration of the sacraments , in order to obtain the conversion of men through the intercession of Mary .
While knowing remote historical antecedents, the tradition developed in Europe in the 1940s , in the wake of a great revival of the Marian cult between the 19th and 20th centuries . In Italy the pilgrimages immediately after the war (1946-1951) were of particular importance. ...
The tradition of the pilgrim Madonna unfolds in the wake of the Marian movement that flourished between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and consolidated by the proclamation of dogmas ... , as well as by the teaching of the Church defined in some constitutions ... The movement finds its apex in the Marian year announced by Pius XII in 1954. For believers, the Peregrinatio Mariaeit is a great moment of faith, conversion and popular religiosity, even if not detached from miraculous and sensational profiles. ...
https://it-m-wikipedia-org.translat...tr_sl=it&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
Observations relating to the Peregrinatio Mariae typically involved a procession in which a figure of the BVM, sometimes accompanied by other religious items, was paraded publicly. Note that such a procession had occurred on the evening preceding Ms. Lotti's encounter.
Now consider the little men's attire ... It was anachronistic to the point of seeming medieval, consisting of a fine doublet or vest, tight leggings extending all the way to the feet, and a short or half cloak / cape hanging off their shoulders. They were wearing headgear that included round panels covering their ears, a noticeable band across the forehead, and (according to one account) an additional round panel or element centered on the headband part.