I found a very interesting "making & exporting your model from maya to UT2003/4", (for dummies, which is exactly what i need most of the time)
https://www.sunny-d.com/ut2003tut_page1.html

tought somebody would be interested.

i am amazed at how hard it is to find good "for dummys" tutorials on "maya to ut 2004" if you know about em link here..

i also wondered if anybody knows about how to make the inverse, ie how to export the models from ut to maya or if there are released maya format utmodels/anims to look at....