The fact that the cataclysms are caused by a passing planet is inferred by many. The Bible calls this planet Wormwood, the Incas call it Hercolubus, the ancient Summerians call it Nibiru.

Velikovsky reports in his book Worlds in Collision parallels in Babylonian and Assyrian clay tablets, Vedic poems, Chinese epics, and North American Indian, Maya, Aztec, and Peruvian legends of a celestial catastrophe, a large body, apparently a comet, passing close enough to Earth to violently perturb its axis.

There were physical upheavals of a global character in historical times; that these catastrophes were caused by extraterrestrial agents;

Earth in Upheaval, by Velikovsky

Kolbrin is compiled of manuscripts saved before the burning of Glastonbury Monastery and safeguarded by a group called the Culdians.

Only the wise know where it went and that it will return in its appointed hour. …called the Destroyer … In colour it was bright and fiery, in appearance changing and unstable.

Kolbrin

The Bible refers to future cataclysms in Revelations.

A great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

Revelations 12-3

The Oahspe, written in 1982 by an Ohio dentist in the mode of the Bible, refers to the planet causing the destruction of Atlantis as the Red Star.

Fly with all speed where first the red star’s vortex gathered up its nebulae, millions of years agone, and on the way say: God hath decreed a pruning-knife to a traveling world. The earth and her heavens near the troughs. I will scoop her up as a toy, like a serpent hungry for its prey.

Oahspe: Book of Aph, Chapter II

Mother Shipton, a Yorkshire witch in the 1500's, known as a prognosticator, referred to the cataclysms being caused by a fiery dragon.

A fiery dragon will cross the sky …

Mother Shipton

ZetaTalk explains this as Planet X, located in 1983 by the JPL infrared team and denied every since to quell panic.

Found in the direction of the constellation Orion … so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto.

Washington Post, Dec 31, 1983